Elisabeth eybers biography of william hill
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Elisabeth Eybers
South African poet
Elisabeth Françoise Eybers (26 February – 1 December ) was a South Africanpoet.
Elisabeth eybers biography of william hill
Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work (and those of others) into English.
Eybers was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. She grew up in the town of Schweizer-Reneke, where her father was the local dominee of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa church.
After completing her high school studies there at the age of 16, she enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for a Bachelor of Artsdegree, which she achieved cum laude.[citation needed]
After her graduation she became a journalist.
In Eybers married the businessman Albert Wessels, with whom she had three daughters and a son. Counted among the so-called Dertigers, she became the first Afrikaans woman to win the Hertzog Prize for poetry in She won the prize again in
Her work received many other awards in both South Africa and the Netherlands, i