Anoeschka von Meck

Anoeschka von Meck (born 1967) is a Namibian author who writes in the Afrikaans language.

Biography Von Meck is of German descent, and was born in Mariental, and lived for a while in Henties Bay. In 1983, von Meck moved to the United States to finish high school, graduating from Lynchburg Christian Academy in Virginia. She was a full-time reporter for Die Republikein. It won three literary awards: the Rapport/Jan Rabie Prize for fresh, new literary voices in Afrikaans, the MER Prize for Youth Literature, and the M-Net Prize for an Afrikaans text in short format. Vaselinetjie is a "true-life story on an abandoned child found lying next to railway lines at the coast and adopted by a coloured couple."

Selected works Annerkant die Longdrop, 1998 Vaselinetjie, 2004 Essie Honiball - Die Ontwaking, 2010