Michiel Heyns
Michiel Heyns is a South African author, translator and academic.
He went to school in Thaba 'Nchu, Kimberley and Grahamstown, and later studied at the University of Stellenbosch and Cambridge University before serving as a professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch, from 1983 until 2003.
Since then he has concentrated on his writing full-time, and has won numerous awards for his reviews, translations and novels.
Novels
- The Children’s Day, Jonathan Ball
- The Reluctant Passenger, Jonathan Ball
- The Typewriter's Tale, Jonathan Ball
- Bodies Politic, Jonathan Ball
- Lost Ground, Jonathan Ball
- Invisible Furies, Jonathan Ball
- A Sportful Malice, Jonathan Ball
- I am Pandarus, Jonathan Ball
- A Poor Season for Whales, Jonathan Ball
- Each Mortal Thing, Umuzi
Translations
- Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat
- Marlene van Niekerk, Memorandum: A Story with pictures
- Tom Dreyer, Equatoria
- Etienne van Heerden, 30 Nights in Amsterdam
- Chris Barnard, Bundu
- Eben Venter, Wolf, Wolf
- Ingrid Winterbach, It Might Get Loud
- Ingrid Winterbach, The Shallows
- Ingrid Winterbach, The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo
- Elsa Joubert: Cul-de-Sac
- Willem Anker, Red Dog
- SJ Naude, ''Fathers and Fugitives ''
Awards
- 2006 Thomas Pringle Award for Reviews in 2006
- 2007 Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation for Agaat
- 2008 South African Translators' Institute Prize for Agaat
- 2009 Herman Charles Bosman Award for Bodies Politic
- 2010 Thomas Pringle Award for Reviews in 2010
- 2012 Herman Charles Bosman Award for Lost Ground
- 2012 The Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Lost Ground
- 2013 Prix de l'Union Interalliee for the French Translation of The Typewriter's Tale
- 2015 Herman Charles Bosman Award for A Sportful Malice
- 2019 SALA Prize for Literary Translation for Red Dog.
- 2020 Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation for The Shallows
- 2021 University of Johannesburg Prize for Literary Translation for ''Red Dog''