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Marlene van Niekerk is a poet, critic, novelist, dramatist and professor of writing who grew up in the rural Overberg region of South Africa's Western Cape..

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Marlene van Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954, on the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon.

Moll Benade, the ill-fated sister–wife–mother–lover to her two brothers and her son, is presented as the antithesis of the volksmoeder ideal (woman as “sign”.

Utilising Van Niekerk's oeuvre as analytical lens, this study observes the nature of the interconnectedness between two of South Africa's literary systems, and.

Marlene van Niekerk is a poet, critic, novelist, dramatist and professor of writing who grew up in the rural Overberg region of South Africa's Western Cape.

This article examines the second-person narrative mode in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat.

This article discusses two volumes of ekphrastic poems by the South African author Marlene van Niekerk.

She attended school in Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, where she matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof.
She studied Languages and Philosophy at Stellenbosch University and obtained a MA with the thesis: Die aard en belang van die literêre vormgewing in 'Also sprach Zarathustra' in 1978.
At university she wrote three plays for the lay theatre.

In 1979 she moved to Germany to join theatres in Stuttgart and Mainz as apprentice for directing. From 1980 - 1985 she continued her studies of philosophy in Holland and obtained a Drs with a thesis on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: "Taal en mythe: een structuralistische en een hermeneutische benadering."
Back in South Africa she lectured in Phil