Born 1948 · South Africa
UJ-prys 2025 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Unrest at Steynshoop”
Ingrid Winterbach · 76 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In Steynshoop, a town its Chinese newcomers have changed deeply, Benna Potgieter, once a child prodigy and since his father’s death a hairdresser in his mother’s salon, is thrown off course when Fonny, the painter he loved and lost, comes back.
UJ-prys 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Ancestor. Pilgrim. Mountain.”
Ingrid Winterbach · 73 when first published
Novel · 288 pages
AI-generated summary:Katerina Steenkamp, her eye on the mountain, tries online dating with unexpected results; a man full of apocalyptic phrases patrols the streets; another watches the night sky for an elliptical craft; and an old woman looks back on her marriage and her three sisters.
UJ-prys 2019 · Shortlist
Die troebel tyd
Ingrid Winterbach · 70 when first published
Novel · 196 pages
AI-generated summary:On the wrong antidepressant, the zoologist Magrieta Prinsloo loses her head, insults her head of department and ends her distinguished academic career. She takes a post at the Bureau for Continuing Education, where colleagues and whales alike send her life in a new direction.
UJ-prys 2016 · Shortlist
Vlakwater
Ingrid Winterbach · 67 when first published
Novel · 272 pages
AI-generated summary:After his relationship breaks up, the artist Niek Steyn settles in Cape Town and befriends Marthinus Scheepers when one of his pigs lands in Niek’s garden. Then his lodger Charelle Koopman disappears, and a well-off artist makes a suspicious offer on his house.
UJ-prys 2013 · Winner
Die aanspraak van lewende wesens
Ingrid Winterbach · 64 when first published
Novel · 336 pages
AI-generated summary:After a disturbing call from one Josias Brandt, the heavy-metal fan Karl Hofmeyr reluctantly sets out to help his brother Iggy, while Maria Volschenk, struck one day by a great emptiness, travels to the Western Cape on a mission she has long dreaded.
UJ-prys 2011 · Shortlist
Die benederyk
Ingrid Winterbach · 62 when first published
Novel · 320 pages
UJ-prys 2007 · Winner
Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
Ingrid Winterbach · 58 when first published
Novel · 328 pages
AI-generated summary:When her employer dies suddenly and a thief steals her precious shells and soils her carpet, Helena Verbloem is set on a search that makes her face the losses she has long concealed.