Wilma Stockenström

• Name — Wilma Stockenström • Birth Name — Wilma Johanna Stockenström • Born — 7 August 1933 • Birthplace — Napier, Union of South Africa • Citizenship — South African • Education — Stellenbosch University • Occupation — Writer, translator and actor • Awards — Hertzog Prize Grinzane Cavour Prize SALA Literary Lifetime Award

She was born in Napier in the Overberg district of South Africa. After finishing high school, she studied at Stellenbosch University, where she obtained a BA in drama in 1952. She moved to Pretoria in 1954, and married the Estonian linguist Ants Kirsipuu. Stockenström has lived in Cape Town since 1993. She is one of a handful of writers to have won the Hertzog prize in two different categories. She won it first for poetry in 1977 and then for fiction in 1991. Her 1981 novel Die kremetartekspedisie was translated into English by the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee under the title The Expedition to the Baobab Tree. Her work has also been translated into Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish and Swedish.

• Vir die bysiende leser, Cape Town: Reijger, 1970 • Spieël van water, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1973 • Van vergetelheid en van glans, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1976 • Monsterverse, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1984 • Die heengaanrefrein, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1988 • Aan die Kaap geskryf, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1994 • Spesmase, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1999 • Die Stomme Aarde: 'n Keur, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 2007 • The Wisdom of Water: A Selection (translated by Johann de Lange), Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 2007 • Skoelapperheuwel, skoelappervrou, New York & Pretoria: Ombondi, 1988/2011 • Hierdie mens, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 2013

• Uitdraai, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1976 • Eers Linkie dan Johanna, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1979 • Die kremetartekspedisie, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1981 • The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (translated by J. M. Coetzee), Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1983; Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2015, • Kaapse rekwisiete, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1987 • Abjater wat so lag, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1991

• Dawid die dik dom kat: ’n kindertoneelstuk, Johannesburg: DALRO, 1971 • Trippens se patatta, Johannesburg: DALRO, 1971 • Laaste middagmaal, Johannesburg: Taurus, 1978

The authorities additionally record the heading Wilma Johanna Stockenström. Her recorded language was Afrikaans.