About Menán du Plessis
Born 1952. Menán du Plessis is a South African novelist, linguist and writer.
Menán du Plessis (born 1952) is a South African novelist and linguist.
Her debut novel A State of Fear won the 1985 Olive Schreiner Prize, and was a joint winner of the Sanlam Literary Prize in 1986.
Works A State of Fear. Cape Town: D. Philip, 1983. Republished by Pandora Press (1987). Longlive! Cape Town: D. Philip, 1989. Translated into German by Susanne Köhler as Das Lied der Gemeinschaft Roman. A unity hypothesis for the southern African Khoesan languages. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. Kora: a lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2018.
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Who is Menán du Plessis?
novelist, linguist
When was Menán du Plessis born?
Menán du Plessis was born in 1952.
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Menán du Plessis is a novelist, linguist and writer.
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Menán du Plessis is South African.
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