Born 1979 · South Africa
UJ-prys 2026 · Shortlist
Willem Anker · 46 when first published
Novella · 160 pages
AI-generated summary:After a meteorite crashes into a country town, a composer looking for inspiration for a science-fiction film score lodges with an astronomer who studies gravitational vortices and whose eight-year-old son does not speak.
UJ-prys 2021 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Creature”
Willem Anker · 41 when first published
Novel · 352 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:On the Cape West Coast, Rebecca Maas nurses her dying father in a talking smart house. A posthuman biohacker marries an oil tanker on the horizon. And in the ice of Svalbard, a researcher’s lover vanishes while they study strange white objects that may be bones.
UJ-prys 2015 · Winner
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Willem Anker · 35 when first published
Novel · 432 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Coenraad de Buys, the most dangerous man in the Cape Colony, crosses his first border at eight and wanders from the Langkloof across the restless frontier of the late 1700s as King of the Basters, polygamist, bandit and outlaw.