Born 1970 · South Africa
UJ-prys 2024 · Winner
Van vaders en vlugtelinge
SJ Naudé · 53 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:When his elderly father dies, Daniël, who lives between London and Cape Town, can inherit only if he visits his cousin Theon on the old family farm in the Free State, a visit that leads to a journey to Tokyo with a sick little boy.
UJ-prys 2022 · Winner
Dol heuning
SJ Naudé · 51 when first published
Short stories · 240 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories that circle the globe from Cape Town to Reykjavik, rural Belgium and the Alps: a couple shelters their son while their cleaner’s child faces the country’s injustices, and a woman takes mad honey with the man who left her for someone else.
UJ-prys 2018 · Winner
Die derde spoel
SJ Naudé · 47 when first published
Novel · 347 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In London in 1986, Etienne Nieuwenhuis and his German lover Axel find the first reel of a lost 1933 film, made by Jewish filmmakers who had to flee Berlin, in the flat of Axel’s dying grandfather, and the search for the rest takes Etienne to Berlin and Buenos Aires.