Lina Spies’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African poet
Is

Poet

Writer
From

South Africa
Type

Literature
Gender female
Birth 6 March 1939, Harrismith, Maluti-a-Phofung Local Municipality, Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, Free State
Age: 81 years

Carellina Pieternella (Lina) Spies (born 6 March 1939 in Harrismith, in North-Eastern Free State South Africa) is an Afrikaans poet and academic.

She received the 1972 Eugène Marais Prize and 1972 Ingrid Jonker Prize), both for her first volume of poetry, Digby vergenoeg.

For most of her career as university professor Spies taught Afrikaans and Dutch literature. Her last position before retiring was at the University of Stellenbosch.

Volumes of poetry

  • Digby Vergenoeg (1971)
  • Winterhawe (1973)
  • Dagreis (1976)
  • Oorstaanson (1982)
  • Van sjofar tot sjalom (1987)
  • Hiermaals (1992)
  • Die skaduwee van die son (1998)
  • Duskant die einders (2004)
  • Die skyn van tuiskoms (2010) – a selection from the poet’s 8 volumes of poetry, made by the poet Johann de Lange.

Non-Fiction

  • Ontmoetings (1979)
  • Kolonnade: ’n studie van DJ Opperman se bundels Heilige beeste, Negester oor Ninevé en Komas uit ’n bamboesstok binne verband van sy oeuvre (1992)
  • Die enkel taak: die merkwaardige verwantskap tussen Elisabeth Eybers en Emily Dickinson (1995)

As translator

  • Agterhuis: Die dagboek van Anne Frank (2008) (Translation into Afrikaans of Anne Frank’s diaries.)
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