T.T. Cloete

Theunis Theodorus Cloete (31 May 1924 – 9 July 2015) was a South African Afrikaans poet, Bible translator, essayist and academic. In the 1970s he was involved in the revision of the ''Afrikaanse Kerkgesange'' and later in the 1993 translation of the Bible.HAT Taal-en-feitegids, Pearson, December 2013, Cloete was linked to The University of Potchefstroom's (now North-West University) School of Language and Literature. He has won numerous literary awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize, W.A. Hofmeyr Prize, Hertzog Prize (twice) and the Andrew Murray Prize. Cloete mostly wrote under the penname T. Jansen van Rensburg (his grandfather's name) and published numerous of his poems in magazines under the penname to test the water before his 1980 debut ''Angelliera''.

Publications

Poetry

* 1980 ''Angelliera''
* 1982 ''Jukstaposisie''
* 1985 ''Allotroop''
* 1986 ''Idiolek''
* 1989 ''Driepas''
* 1992 ''Met die aarde praat''
* 1998 ''Uit die hoek van my oog''
* 2001 ''Die baie ryk ure: 100 uitgesoekte gedigte''
* 2007 ''Heilige nuuskierigheid''
* 2010 ''Uit die wit lig van my land gesny. Vir Anna''
* 2011 ''Onversadig''
* 2014 ''Karnaval en Lent''NB-Uitgewers: http://www.nb.co.za/authors/2338

Short stories

* 1984 ''Die waarheid gelieg''
* 1997 ''Identikit''

Plays

* 1986 ''Onderhoud met ’n bobbejaan''

Academic publications

* 1953 ''Trekkerswee en Joernaal van Jorik : twee gedigte met historiese materiaal uit twee fases van die Afrikaanse letterkunde''
* 1957 ''Beskouings oor poësie: ’n bundel opgedra aan prof. G. Dekker op sy sestigste verjaardag 11 November 1957'' (met andere)
* 1961 ''Die wêreld is ons woning nie: ’n studie van die poësie van Totius met tekste''
* 1963 ''Totius''
* 1963 ''Op die woord af: opstelle oor die poësie van N.P. van Wyk Louw''
* 1963 ''Eugène N. Marais''
* 1966 ''Gids by D.J. Opperman se Senior Verseboek''
* 1970 ''Twee idilles: Martjie en Trekkerswee'' (Blokboek)
* 1970 ''Tetralogie van F.A. Venter''
* 1970 ''Kaneel: Opstelle oor die letterkunde''
* 1972 ''Sensuur: prinsipieel en prakties besien''
* 1974 ''Joernaal van Jorik'' (Blokboek)
* 1974 ''N.P. van Wyk Louw, 11 Junie 1906 – 18 Junie 1970''
* 1978 ''Totius se organiese beskouing'' (Langenhovengedenklesing)
* 1980 ''Die Afrikaanse literatuur sedert sestig''
* 1980 ''Van Wyk Louw se fundamenteel dramatiese instelling'' (NP van Wyk Louw-gedenklesing)
* 1982 ''Die verhouding tussen die skrywer en sy volk''
* 1982 ''Hoe om ’n gedig te ontleed'' (Blokboek)
* 1984 ''Wat is literatuur?''
* 1993 ''Die literatuur en sy verband met die tyd''
* 2004 ''Van Leopold Tot Achterberg''

Editor and co-editor

* ''Die Afrikaanse literatuur sedert sestig'' (together with A.P. Grové, J.P. Smuts and Elize Botha), 1980
* ''Gids by die literatuurstudie'' (together with Elize Botha and Charles Malan), 1985
* ''Literêre terme en teorieë'' (together with Hein Viljoen, Leon Strydom, Heilnadu Plooy and Anne-Marie Bosschoff), 1992

Other

* ''Van Hooft tot Luyken'' (together with G. Dekker), 1961
* ''Van Hendrik van Veldeke tot Spieghel'', 1963
* ''Vyfling'', 1966
* ''Faune'', 1966
* ''Poort 1972'' (together with P.D. van der Walt and L. Dekker) 1973
* ''Totius: Vyftig gedigte'', 1876
* ''Lens 78/79'' (together with Rudolph Willemse), 1979
* ''Dit kom van ver af'', 2002

Translations

* ''Meneer Perrichon gaan op reis'' – E. Labiche en Ed. Martin, 1962

Awards

* 1976 Gustav Preller medal for Literature and Literary Criticism
* 1980 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry (''Angelliera'')
* 1981 W.A. Hofmeyr Prize for Poetry (''Angelliera'')
* 1983 Louis Luyt Prize (''Jukstaposisie'')
* 1985 CNA Prize (''Allotroop'')
* 1986 W.A. Hofmeyr Prize (''Allotroop'')
* 1986 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Potchefstroom
* 1987 Hertzog Prize for Poetry (''Allotroop'' and ''Idiolek'')
* 1990 W.A. Hofmeyr Prize (''Driepas'')
* 1992 Rapport Prize (''Met die aarde praat'')
* 1993 Rapportryers Prize for Poetry (''Met die aarde praat'')
* 1993 Hertzog Prize for Poetry (''Met die aarde praat'')
* 2002 Andrew Murray Prize
* 2002 N.P. van Wyk Louw medal
* 2007 FAK-erepenning
* 2008 Honorary membership of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns
* 2016 South African Literary Awards Posthumous Literary Award

References

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1924 births
2015 deaths
Afrikaans-language poets
Afrikaner people
20th-century South African poets
South African male poets
Hertzog Prize winners for poetry