François Bloemhof is a South Africa

South Africa

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n author. He writes mostly in Afrikaans and has won a number of prizes for his work.

Biography

Bloemhof was born in 1962 in Paarl

Paarl

Paarl is a town with 191,013 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its the third oldest European settlement in the Republic of South Africa and the largest town in the Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni township, it is now a de facto urban unit with Wellington...

. He made his debut in 1991 with the novel Die nag het net een oog, for which he received the De Kat Prize. His subsequent three books all fall within the thriller genre

Genre

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, whereafter he also published books for children of various age groups. For some of his books in this genre he has received ATKV-Veertjie Prizes.

In 2006 Bloemhof returned to the thriller genre with the novel Spinnerak.

Adult Fiction

• Die nag het net een oog (1991)
• Bloedbroer (1995)
• Storieboek (1996)
• Nagbesoeker (1997)
• Hostis (1998)
• Rooi Luiperd (2008)
• Afspraak in Venesië (2009)

Teenage Fiction

• Slinger-slinger (1997)
• Nie vir kinders nie (2005)
• Moenie dat die grootmense hoor nie (2009)

External links

• francoisbloemhof.net The official François Bloemhof website (in Afrikaans)
• NB Publishers biography
• LAPA biography (in Afrikaans)
• Stellenbosch Writers biography
• Storiewerf biography (in Afrikaans)
• a bibliography by Vetseun