Jan Rabie

Jan Rabie was born on 14 November 1920 in George, in the Cape Province. He lived in Paris from 1948 to 1955, where he married the painter Marjorie Wallace, of Scottish descent, and was afterwards a model for the Afrikaans-language writers who had left for Europe. Back in South Africa, he became one of the figures of the Sestigers generation, and was regarded as a pioneer of protest literature in his language. Settled with his wife at Onrus, on the coast, he kept a house open to artists and writers there, and died there on 15 November 2001, aged eighty-one.

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• Short storiesEen-en-twintigJan Rabie · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature