Louise Viljoen: 3 books

Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem “Die kind” (The Child) at the opening of South Africa’s first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a significant figure in South African literary...

What would you do if you died today and experienced the pure joy of Heaven, only to be asked to choose to come back to your life on Earth? As It Is in Heaven is about the journey of a young woman who faced this life-changing choice. She had to find the courage to allow the hand of God to intervene....

The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between...