Michiel Heyns
Michiel Heyns grew up in various towns and cities all over South Africa, and studied at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cambridge.
As well as a non-fiction book on the 19th-century novel and many critical essays, he has published nine novels, the latest of which is A Poor Season for Whales. He has produced several translations, two of which, Marlene van Niekerk’s The Way of the Women and Chris Barnard’s Bundu, were short-listed for the (then) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
- By
- Willem Anker
- Translated by
- Michiel Heyns
- Published by
- Pushkin Press
Willem Anker’s fiercely powerful novel is a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed. Translated by Michiel Heyns.