Etienne van Heerden

Quick Facts

Full Name	Etienne van Heerden
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1954(1954-12-03)
Age	70
Birthplace	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Etienne van Heerden Biography

Etienne van Heerden is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on December 3, 1954 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Van Heerden was born in 1954, just six years after the formal establishment of apartheid. Her mother worked as an English math teacher who was fluent in English. His father, who was an Afrikaans merino breeder, worked on their family’s land in Karoo. Van Heerden was reared Afrikaans and had English only used at home on Tuesdays. He learned to read comics bought from London.

While he is a resident of South Africa’s Western Cape, Van Heerden writes in his work back to The Karoo of his youth. He writes about this dry and mythological area of South Africa’s interior. as his personal “landscape of the mind”.

Van Heerden has published two books of poetry, two volumes of short stories as well as an album of cabaret songs along with academic and theoretical research, as well as novels. His activities span a wide variety of activities, including being a syndicated columnist on the three major Afrikaans daily newspapers and published throughout South Africa, his own program on satellite TV, as well as the founder for one of the very few South African internet startups.

Etienne van Heerden Net Worth

Etienne van Heerden is one of the richest Writer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Etienne van Heerden 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author.

In the 1980s, He was a member of the Afrikaans writers group who secretly met with members of the banned ANC of Mandela and exiled writers from the (now well-known) Victoria Falls Writers’ Conference which was which was held in Zimbabwe.

He regularly teaches at universities in Europe, and has been Writer in Residence at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a member of the University of Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Program in 1990, and has been back on visits to this university, of which he is an Honorary Fellow in Writing. He regularly reads his fiction at events such as the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Winter Nights Festival in the Hague, Netherlands, the Time of the Writer Festival in Berlin, Germany, the Zimbabwe Book Fair and other festivals and events internationally.

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Facts & Trivia

Etienne Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Etienne van Heerden celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.

Top Facts about Etienne van Heerden

1. Etienne van Heerden is a South African author.
2. He was born on 6 November 1954 in Cape Town.
3. Van Heerden has published several novels and short stories.
4. His most famous work is “Ancestral Voices”.
5. Van Heerden has won numerous literary awards.
6. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and Rhodes University.
7. Van Heerden has also worked as a journalist and academic.
8. His writing often explores themes of identity, history, and memory.
9. Van Heerden’s works have been translated into multiple languages.
10. In addition to his writing, he is also involved in cultural activism.