Theo Kemp

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• Klein konings

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  UJ-prys 2026 · Shortlist

  Klein konings

  AITitle translated by AI:“Little Kings”

  Theo Kemp

  Novel · 240 pages · Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:The Minister orders two civil servants, Pixley, of Zulu nobility, and Joubert, said to descend from General Piet Joubert, to tour the country, inspect its apartheid and colonial monuments and draw up a plan to remove them.

• Strafjaart

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  UJ-prys 2020 · Shortlist

  Strafjaart

  AITitle translated by AI:“Year of Punishment”

  Theo Kemp

  Novel

  AIAI-generated summary:When his aunt is jailed for fraud and spends a year in Pollsmoor, a naive, nameless researcher who studies the first ships at the Cape swaps the library for the prison’s waiting room, and is drawn ever deeper into the lives of those waiting to be let in or out.