Celliers, Jan

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Section: Poets in the News
Poet Name: Celliers, Jan
Given Name: Jan
Last Name: Celliers
Date of Birth: 12 January 1865
Biography: Jan Celliers was born in 1865 in South Africa, where he would become an Afrikaans-language poet, essayist, dramatist and reviewer. Celliers, along with two other Afrikaans-language poets (Totius and C. Louis Leipoldt) who wrote in the aftermath of the Second Boer War. He is most known for his poetry collection "The Plains and Other Poems," published 1908. He was a professor at Stellenbosch University from 1919 to 1940.

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News Items: Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; A New Look in Writing
Works: Die Vlakte en ander gedigte ("The Plains and Other Poems")
Close Relationships: Abrahams, Peter; Brink, André Philippus; Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'; Smith, Pauline Janet; Bosman, Herman Charles; Schuitema, Barend; Lessing, Doris; Morton, Do; Woods, Donald James; Schreiner, Olive; Louw, W. E. G.; van den Heever, C. M.; Smit, Hettie; FitzPatrick, James Percy; van Bruggen, Jochem; Jacobson, Dan; Millin, Sarah Gertrude; Gordimer, Nadine; 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; Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'; 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; Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Place of Birth: South Africa, Wellington
Spatial Coverage: Wellington
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News