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Section
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Poets in the News
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Poet Name
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Marais, Eugène Nielen
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Given Name
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Eugène Nielen
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Last Name
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Marais
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Date of Birth
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9 January 1871
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Biography
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Eugene Marais was a South African poet, writer, and naturalist who, during the Boer War in 1899, joined a German expedition that sought to ship ammunition and medicines to the Boer Commandos. Following the war, Marais studied nature in the wilderness of Pretoria, cataloguing animals and writing in Afrikaans. He was considered the leader of the Second Afrikaans Language Movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais>
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Close Relationships
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Hughes, Ted
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Lessing, Doris
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Schreiner, Olive
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Smit, Hettie
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Brink, André Philippus
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Bosman, Herman Charles
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Louw, W. E. G.
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van den Heever, C. M.
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Jacobson, Dan
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Millin, Sarah Gertrude
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Abrahams, Peter
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Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'
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Norman, Philip
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Woods, Donald James
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Gordimer, Nadine
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Smith, Pauline Janet
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Schuitema, Barend
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Morton, Do
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Ashton, E. H.
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FitzPatrick, James Percy
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van Bruggen, Jochem
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Breytenbach, Breyten
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Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise
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Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'
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van den Heever, Toon
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Blum, Peter
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Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'
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Plomer, William
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Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'
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Butler, Guy
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Pringle, Thomas
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Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'
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Madge, Charles Henry
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Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'
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Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'
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Paton, Alan
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Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus
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Wright, David
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Campbell, Roy
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Rousseau, Ina
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Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'
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Krige, Uys
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van Heerden, Ernst
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MacNab, Roy
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Celliers, Jan
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Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
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Spatial Coverage
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Pretoria
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Region
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Southern Africa
The laureate who will not look away
Rich man ITV v poor man BBC
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
Angry Decade
Roaming the hills and rolling in the aisles
Man—Instinctive Killer?
Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach
