Dana Snyman is a
South African journalist
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Roles
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,
writer
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and
playwright
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Readin ...
.
Snyman was born in
Stellenbosch
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Thomas Baldwin ...
and
matriculated
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Australia
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from
Nylstroom High School. He later followed a journalism course at the
Tshwane University of Technology
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As the number of ...
before joining the
Afrikaans
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newspaper
Beeld
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as a
crime
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reporter.
Three years later he became a journalist at
Huisgenoot
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magazine, where he worked for ten years. As of 2007, Snyman is the travel editor of
Weg!
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magazine.
His first book, ''Uit die binneland'' (From the country) was published in 2005 and his second, ''Anderkant die scrap'' (On the other side of the scrap), in 2006. Both are collected short-short stories and sketches.
Snyman's first play, the one-man comedy ''Die Uwe, Pottie Potgieter '' (Yours Truly, Pottie Potgieter), was first performed in 2006 by
Frank Opperman and was the runner-up for the AngloGold Ashanti/Aardklop-Smeltkroes Award for new texts in the same year.
Awards
* 2005
Mondi
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Magazine Award for "Commentary and Critique".
* 2005 ''ATKVeertjie'' award from the ''
Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging
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'' (Afrikaans Language and Cultural Society), for magazine journalism.
* 2006 ''ATKVeertjie'' for magazine journalism.
Publications
* ''Uit die binneland'', 2005, .
* ''Anderkant die scrap'', 2006, .
References
Afrikaner people
South African dramatists and playwrights
South African journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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