Contributor

Etienne van Heerden

Contributor

Etienne van Heerden

South Africa

Etienne van Heerden’s books have been published in twelve languages. He studied law, qualified as an attorney and later moved to writing and teaching....

He is professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town and the founder-editor of www.litnet.co.za, the largest online multilingual cultural community in South Africa. His books include Ancestral Voices, Leap Year, Kikuyu, Mad Dog and Other Stories, and Casspirs and Camparis. He was a member of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in the nineties.

Landscape image of Karoo, Beaufort West, South Africa

Photo by Juanita Swart on Unsplash

Poison Karoo

By Etienne van Heerden

Perhaps I will poison a petrol engineer’s coffee.

Translated from Afrikaans by Isobel Dixon

From “Thirty Nights in Amsterdam”

By Etienne van Heerden

“A bicycle, a bike,” I nag at MaOlivier, and she has to phone around, first my old Snoozebrother on the farm, then the husband of my old Pretoria sister.

Translated from Afrikaans by Michiel Heyns

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Etienne van Heerden

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Articles by Etienne van Heerden

Poison Karoo

From “Thirty Nights in Amsterdam”