Chris van Wyk (1957-2014) was a writer of poetry, books for children, a novel, two memoirs, and other books of non-fiction. His famous poem “In Detention” uses a scrambled language to show how Apartheid police lied about the deaths of political detainees.
6 Ebooks by Chris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk: My Mother’s Laughter
Chris van Wyks first (and only) book of poems, It Is Time to Go Home, was published in 1979 when he was just 22. He went on to become a well-known and much-loved writer of memoirs, biographies, and …
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€7.49
Darryl Accone & Zithulele Cindi: We Write What We Like
Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of …
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€18.66
Chris van Wyk: Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch
Agnes, the Van Wyks’ Zulu housekeeper, had a special friendship with young Chris in the late sixties to early seventies. He would defend her whenever she came to work with a hangover on a Monday morn …
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€9.34
Chris van Wyk: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
Shirley, Goodness & Mercy is a heart-warming, yet compellingly honest story about a young boy growing up in Newclare, Coronationville and Riverlea during the apartheid era.Despite Van Wyk’s later …
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€8.78
Darryl Accone & Zithulele Cindi: We Write What We Like
A celebration of Steve Biko’s legacy of freedom Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas …
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€32.99
Chris van Wyk & Vagn Plenge: Post-Traumatic: South African Short Stories
The contributors of this anthology make up a wide spectrum of South Africans: black, white, men and women, established and budding who write in either English or Afrikaans. Among these are writers …
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€23.99
