C. M. van den Heever

Christiaan Maurits van den Heever, almost universally known C.M. van den Heever, was an Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer.
Counted among the Dertigers, van den Heever is noted for his most famous novels: Somer and Laat vrugte. The latter won the Hertzog Prize for prose in 1942.
Van den Heever studied at the University of the [Free State] in Bloemfontein and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Upon his return to South Africa, he gained a teaching position at the University of the Free State. After completing his dissertation on the poet Totius, he finished his academic career at Witwatersrand University.