Elisabeth eybers biography of barack

South African poet

Elisabeth Françoise Eybers (26 February 1915 – 1 December 2007) was a South Africanpoet. Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work (and those of others) into English.

Eybers was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. She grew up in the town of Schweizer-Reneke, where her father was the local dominee of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa church.

Elisabeth eybers biography of barack

After completing her high school studies there at the age of 16, she enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for a Bachelor of Artsdegree, which she achieved cum laude.^{[citation needed]}

After her graduation she became a journalist.

In 1937 Eybers married the businessman Albert Wessels, with whom she had three daughters and a son. Counted among the so-called Dertigers, she became the first Afrikaans woman to win the Hertzog Prize for poetry in 1943. She won the prize again in 1971.

Her work received many other awards in both South Afr