Mary Sadler
Encyclopedia
Mary Sadler was born on 2 May 1941 in the Netherlands
and emigrated with parents to South Africa
while still a child. She grew up in Upington at the Orange River (Gariep), the setting of her historical novel, Sand. She is currently working on a series of Afrikaans
'Westerns
', with an adventurer called Lang Henning as the main protagonist.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
and emigrated with parents to South Africa
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...
while still a child. She grew up in Upington at the Orange River (Gariep), the setting of her historical novel, Sand. She is currently working on a series of 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...
'Westerns
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
', with an adventurer called Lang Henning as the main protagonist.