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van Niekerk, Marlene

South African author

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contribution to African literature

  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: Afrikaans

    Marlene van Niekerk wrote Triomf (1994; “Triumph”; Eng. trans. Triomf), a novel based on Sophiatown, a black settlement near Johannesburg that was replaced by the South African government in the 1950s and ’60s by a white working-class suburb dubbed Triomf. In Lettie Viljoen’s Klaaglied vir…

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