Stormkind
Année de publication
2018
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Wilhelmina Adriana (Riana) Scheepers was born in Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal on 9 December 1957. She matriculated at Vryheid High School in 1975. Thereafter, she completed a BA Degree in Communication, a BA Honours and a Masters’ Degree (Afrikaans) – all cum laude – at the University of the Free State. Since then, Riana has been a lecturer at the Universities of Zululand and Cape Town, an editor at Tafelberg Publishers and a teacher at Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch.
In 1997 she completed her Doctorate in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Cape Town.
Riana’s first published work was a volume of short stories in 1990 titled Die ding in die vuur, for which she was awarded the ATKV and FAK prizes. In 1992 she was awarded the Eugene Marais Prize for her second volume of short stories, Dulle Griet. Her books have been bestsellers ever since, both in South Africa and abroad.
