Lettie Viljoen

Lettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She lives in Jamestown, Stellenbosch.

Life and education

Winterbach was born in Johannesburg in 1948. She got her early education from Florida High School, Johannesburg and studied Afrikaans, Dutch and Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and went on to a postgraduate degree in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Stellenbosch under D.J. Opperman. She went on to work as a teacher, a journalist, a Fine Arts lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Natal. She has been a full-time writer and painter since 2002. Most of her mature novels have been translated into Dutch and English.

List of titles

As Lettie Viljoen

1984 Klaaglied vir Koos
1986 Erf
1990 Belemmering
1993 Karolina Ferreira
1996 ''Landskap met vroue en slang''

As Ingrid Winterbach

1999 Buller se Plan
2002 Niggie
2006 Die Boek van Toeval en Toeverlaat
2010 Die Benederyk
2012 Die Aanspraak van Lewende Wesens
2015 Vlakwater
2018 Die Troebel Tyd
2021 Voorouer. Pelgrim. Berg.
2024 ''Onrus op Steynshoop''

Awards

1994 M-Net Literary Awards – Karolina Ferreira
1994 Old Mutual Literary Award – Karolina Ferreira
2000 WA Hofmeyr Prize – Buller se plan
2004 Hertzog Prize for Prose – Niggie
2007 WA Hofmeyr Prize – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
2007 M-Net Literary Awards – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
2007 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
2010 South African Literary Award for literary translation for the translation of Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
2012 C.L. Engelbrecht Prize for Literature – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
2012 NB-Uitgewers Groot Romankompetisie – Die aanspraak van lewende wesens
2013 M-Net Literary Awards - Die aanspraak van lewende wesens
2013 Hertzog Prize for Prose – Die aanspraak van lewende wesens
2013 WA Hofmeyr Prize – Die aanspraak van lewende wesens
2024 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in Afrikaans – ''Onrus op Steynshoop''