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Gert Vlok Nel

Country: South Africa

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Biography:

Gert Vlok Nel came to the attention off South Africans in 1994 with his debut work om te lewe is natuurlik (to live is natural), for which he received the coveted Ingrid Jonker Prize for exceptional debut poetry. Vlok Nel paints personal portraits of his childhood in Beaufort-West and writes lyrics that are of a haunting, bewitching, almost hypnotic quality in unusual, innovative Afrikaans.

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I sagte reen het agtermiddag

i sagte reen het die agtermiddag.
ja ons almal het uitgehol, rondgedans in die.
tot Ma natuurlik gese het kom in julle reen.
julle sal koue

ekenAttieenPollie en Vlokkie my vertraagde.
het nie geluister vir Ma nie, ons het.
ons het bootjies gery in die sloot langs.
Vlokkie die simpel lag i i i iieeggghh die simpel ding.

in die yard kom Ma uit met die belt kamma
ons hol in bang kamma. skielik is daar - en helse.
in die straat is daar - en botsing, i bakkie en i.
i sagte reen het agtermiddag.

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