Find out more about the greatest South African Writers, including J. M. Coetzee, Bryce Courtenay, Ronald Harwood, Athol Fugard and Austin Stevens.
Keorapetse Kgositsile
19 September 1938
Athol Fugard11 June 1932
Austin Stevens19 May 1950
Alan Paton11 January 1903
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa21 July 1921
Ruth First04 May 1925
Laurens van der Post13 December 1906
Breyten Breytenbach16 September 1939
Olive Schreiner24 March 1855
Robert Calvert09 March 1945
André Brink29 May 1935
Joseph Wolpe20 April 1915
Neil Turok16 November 1958
Ronald Harwood09 November 1934
Ingrid Jonker19 September 1933
Peter Abrahams03 March 1919
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer28 October 1908
Chris Barnard15 July 1939
Bessie Emery Head06 July 1937
