Michiel Heyns
# Michiel Heyns

Michiel Heyns (born 2 December 1943) is a South African author, translator and academic.

He went to school in Thaba 'Nchu, Kimberley and Grahamstown, and later studied at the University of Stellenbosch and Cambridge University before serving as a professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch, from 1983 until 2003.

Since then he has concentrated on his writing full-time, and has won numerous awards for his reviews, translations and novels.

## Novels

* The Children’s Day, Jonathan Ball (2002)
* The Reluctant Passenger, Jonathan Ball (2003)
* The Typewriter's Tale, Jonathan Ball (2005)
* Bodies Politic, Jonathan Ball (2008)
* Lost Ground, Jonathan Ball (2011)
* Invisible Furies, Jonathan Ball (2012)
* A Sportful Malice, Jonathan Ball (2014)
* I am Pandarus, Jonathan Ball (2017)
* A Poor Season for Whales, Jonathan Ball (2020)

## Translations

* Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat (2006)
* Marlene van Niekerk, Memorandum: A Story with pictures (2006)
* Tom Dreyer, Equatoria (2008)
* Etienne van Heerden, 30 Nights in Amsterdam (2011)
* Chris Barnard, Bundu (2011)
* Eben Venter, Wolf, Wolf (2013)
* Ingrid Winterbach, It Might Get Loud (2015)
* Ingrid Winterbach, The Shallows (2017)
* Ingrid Winterbach, The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo (2019)
* Elsa Joubert: Cul-de-Sac (2019)
* Willem Anker, Red Dog (2019)

## Awards

* 2006 Thomas Pringle Award for Reviews in 2006
* 2007 Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation for Agaat
* 2008 South African Translators' Institute Prize for Agaat
* 2009 Herman Charles Bosman Award for Bodies Politic
* 2010 Thomas Pringle Award for Reviews in 2010
* 2012 Herman Charles Bosman Award for Lost Ground
* 2012 The Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Lost Ground
* 2013 Prix de l'Union Interalliee for the French Translation of The Typewriter's Tale
* 2015 Herman Charles Bosman Award for A Sportful Malice
* 2019 SALA Prize for Literary Translation for Red Dog.
* 2020 Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation for The Shallows
* 2021 University of Johannesburg Prize for Literary Translation for Red Dog
