Jan Rabie’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African writer
Was Writer
From South Africa
Type Literature
Gender male
Birth

14 November 1920, George

Death

15 November 2001
(aged 81 years)

Jan Sebastian Rabie (14 November 1920 – 15 November 2001) was an Afrikaans writer of short stories, novels and other literary works. He was born in George, and was the writer of twenty-one works. He was included under the Sestigers, a group of influential Afrikaans writers of the 1960s.

Novels

Note: The English titles are translated from the Afrikaans, and are not available as such.

  • Nog skyn die sterre (Still the stars are shining) (1943)
  • Geen somer (No summer) (1944)
  • Vertrou op môre (Believe in tomorrow) (1946)
  • Die pad na mekaar (The road to one another) (1947)
  • Dakkamer en agterplaas (Attic and backyard) (1957)
  • Swart ster oor die Karoo (Black star over the Karoo) (1957)
  • Ons, die afgod (Us, the idol) (1958)
  • Die groen planeet (The green planet) (1961)
  • Mens-alleen (Man alone) (1963)
  • Die groot anders-maak (The great changing) (1964)
  • Eiland voor Afrika (Island before Africa) (1964)
  • Waar jy sterwe (Where you die) (1966)
  • Klipwieg (Stone crib) (1970)
  • Die hemelblom (The heavenly flower) (1971)
  • Ark (Ark) (1977)
  • Johanna se storie (Johanna’s story) (1981)
  • En oseaan (And Ocean) (1985)

Short stories

  • Een-en-twintig (Twenty-one) (1956)
  • Die roos aan die pels (The rose on the fur) (1966)
  • Versamelverhale (Collected novels) (1980)

Non-fiction

  • Groen reise (Green travels) (1950)
  • Die evolusie van nasionalisme (The evolution of nationalism) (1960)
  • Polemika, (Polemic) 1957-1965 (1966)
  • ’n Haan vir Eloúnda (A rooster for Eloúnda) (1971)
  • ’n Boek vir Onrus (A book for unrest) (1982)
  • Buidel (Pouch) (1989)
  • Paryse dagboek (Paris diary) (1998)

Young adult novels

  • Twee strandlopers (Two beachwalkers) (1960)
  • Seeboek van die sonderkossers (Sea book for those without food) (1975)
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