Section

Poets in the News

Poet Name

Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'

Given Name

Gottfried Andreas

Last Name

Watermeyer

Date of Birth

15 October 1917

Biography

Godfried Andreas Watermeyer was an Afrikaner poet. He worked as a translator for the South African Broadcasting Corporation and, later, had a successful career in advertising. He published seven collections of poetry in his lifetime, though his first, "Sekel en simbaal," published 1948, remains the most praised.

<https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.A._Watermeyer>

Education

University of Stellenbosch

News Items

Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach

A New Look in Writing

Works

In kringe

Sekel en simbaal

Bitter brood

Atlantis or The crying of the waters

Taalfeeskwatryne

Die Republiek van duisend jaar

Close Relationships

Lessing, Doris

Nel, Gert Vlok

Schreiner, Olive

Smit, Hettie

Hambidge, Joan 'Helene'

Brink, André Philippus

Bosman, Herman Charles

Louw, W. E. G.

van den Heever, C. M.

Muller, Petra

Jacobson, Dan

Millin, Sarah Gertrude

Abrahams, Peter

Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'

Woods, Donald James

Naude, Charl-Pierre

Marais, Danie

Gordimer, Nadine

Niekerk, Marlene

Stockenstrom, Wilma

Smith, Pauline Janet

Marais, Loftus 'Lodewikus Stefanus'

Schuitema, Barend

Morton, Do

FitzPatrick, James Percy

van Bruggen, Jochem

Verwey, Len

Breytenbach, Breyten

Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise

Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'

van den Heever, Toon

Blum, Peter

Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'

Marais, Eugène Nielen

Plomer, William

Butler, Guy

Pringle, Thomas

Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'

Madge, Charles Henry

Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'

Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'

Paton, Alan

Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus

Wright, David

Campbell, Roy

Rousseau, Ina

Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'

Krige, Uys

van Heerden, Ernst

MacNab, Roy

Celliers, Jan

Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'

Place of Birth

South Africa

Region

Southern Africa

Type

Poets in the News