Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus

Item

Section
Poets in the News
Poet Name
Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus
Given Name
Nicholaas Petrus
Last Name
Vanwyk Louw
Date of Birth
11 June 1906
Biography
N. P. van Wyk Louw was a South African poet, playwright, and scholar who wrote in Afrikaans. He is quoted as suggesting that Afrikaans is the "bridge" that connects Europe and Africa. D. J. Opperman, another South African poet, has been recorded suggesting that van Wyk Louw was "the greatest" Afrikaner poet of the period.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._P._van_Wyk_Louw>
Close Relationships
Lessing, Doris
Parenzee, Donald
Schreiner, Olive
Horwitz, Allan Kolski
Smit, Hettie
Hambidge, Joan 'Helene'
Brink, André Philippus
Bosman, Herman Charles
Garisch, Dawn
Pieterse, Cosmo
Louw, W. E. G.
van den Heever, C. M.
Gray, Stephen
Baderoon, Gabeba
Cronin, Jeremy
Kok, Ingrid de
Millin, Sarah Gertrude
Jacobson, Dan
Abrahams, Peter
Kozain, Rustum
Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'
Johnson, Sarah
Woods, Donald James
Watson, Stephen
Mulgrew, Nick
Hall, Megan
Gordimer, Nadine
Eliot, Thomas Stearns 'T. S.'
Smith, Pauline Janet
Schuitema, Barend
Dowling, Finuala
Morton, Do
FitzPatrick, James Percy
van Bruggen, Jochem
Breytenbach, Breyten
Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise
Fugard, Sheila Meiring
Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'
van den Heever, Toon
Blum, Peter
Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'
Marais, Eugène Nielen
Plomer, William
Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'
Butler, Guy
Pringle, Thomas
Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'
Madge, Charles Henry
Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'
Driver, Charles Jonathan 'Jonty'
Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'
Paton, Alan
Small, Adam
Wright, David
Haresnape, Geoffrey
Campbell, Roy
Rousseau, Ina
Clouts, Sydney
Rive, Richard
Coetzee, John Maxwell ' -J. M. '
Adams, Perseus 'Peter Robert Charles'
Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'
Krige, Uys
van Heerden, Ernst
MacNab, Roy
Celliers, Jan
Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Hamilton, William Robert 'W. R.'
Place of Birth
South Africa, Sutherland
Spatial Coverage
Sutherland
Region
Southern Africa