Lit in Translation

Ryk Hattingh

Born 1957 · South Africa

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    UJ-prys 2017 · Shortlist

    Huilboek

    Title translated by AI:“Book of Weeping”

    Ryk Hattingh · 59 when first published

    Novel · 160 pages · Autofiction, Family

    AI-generated summary:An interwoven text that moves between the present in New Zealand and a childhood on the East Rand in the 1960s, asking who the child on the stoep was, and who Outa Toon was, the man seen only from behind in a photograph with father and sons.