Dana Snyman
Encyclopedia
Dana Snyman is an award-winning South Africa
n journalist
, writer
and playwright
.
Snyman was born in Stellenbosch and matriculated
from Nylstroom High School. He later followed a journalism course at the Pretoria Technikon before joining the Afrikaans
newspaper Beeld
as a crime
reporter.
Three years later he became a journalist at Huisgenoot
magazine, where he worked for ten years. As of 2007, Snyman is the travel editor of Weg! magazine.
His first book, Uit die binneland (From the interior) was published in 2005 and his second, Anderkant die scrap (The other side of the scrap), in 2006. Both are collected short-short stories and schetches.
Snyman's first play, the one-man comedy Die Uwe, Pottie Potgieter (Yours Truly, Pottie Potgieter), was first performed in 2006 by Frank Opperman
and was the runner-up for the AngloGold Ashanti/Aardklop-Smeltkroes Award for new texts in the same year.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n journalist
Journalist
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, writer
Writer
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and playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
.
Snyman was born in Stellenbosch and matriculated
Matriculation
Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matricula – little list. In Scottish heraldry, for instance, a matriculation is a registration of armorial bearings...
from Nylstroom High School. He later followed a journalism course at the Pretoria Technikon before joining the Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
newspaper Beeld
Beeld
Beeld is an Afrikaans language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. Beeld is distributed in five provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West and KwaZulu-Natal. Die Beeld was an Afrikaans language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s...
as a crime
Crime
Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...
reporter.
Three years later he became a journalist at Huisgenoot
Huisgenoot
Huisgenoot is a weekly Afrikaans-language general interest family magazine. It has the highest circulation figures of any South African magazine and is followed by sister magazine YOU, its English language version. A third magazine, Drum, is directed at the black market...
magazine, where he worked for ten years. As of 2007, Snyman is the travel editor of Weg! magazine.
His first book, Uit die binneland (From the interior) was published in 2005 and his second, Anderkant die scrap (The other side of the scrap), in 2006. Both are collected short-short stories and schetches.
Snyman's first play, the one-man comedy Die Uwe, Pottie Potgieter (Yours Truly, Pottie Potgieter), was first performed in 2006 by Frank Opperman
Frank Opperman
In 1993 he moved to America for a few years but later returned to South Africa to become co-owner of a Jazz club called Bassline in Johannesburg. He also released a rock album called Serial Boyfriend....
and was the runner-up for the AngloGold Ashanti/Aardklop-Smeltkroes Award for new texts in the same year.
Awards
- 2005 Mondi Magazine Award for "Commentary and Critique" http://www.mondi.co.za/news/news_may05_1.htm.
- 2005 ATKVeertjie award from the Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging (Afrikaans Language and Cultural Society), for magazine journalism.
- 2006 ATKVeertjie for magazine journalism http://www.atkv.org.za/content.cfm?ipkCategoryID=78.
Publications
- Uit die binneland, 2005, ISBN 9780798144858.
- Anderkant die scrap, 2006, ISBN 9780798147149.