T.T. Cloete, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

T.T. Cloete

South African poet and writer

Date of Birth: 31-May-1924

Place of Birth: Vredefort, Free State, South Africa

Date of Death: 09-Jul-2015

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Theunis Theodorus Cloete (1924–2015) was a renowned Afrikaans poet, Bible translator, essayist and academic.
In the 1970s he was involved in the revision of the ''Afrikaanse Kerkgesange'' and later in the 1993 translation of the Bible.
Cloete was linked to The University of Potchefstroom's (now North-West University) School of Language and Literature.
He has won numerous literary awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize, W.A.
Hofmeyr Prize, Hertzog Prize (twice) and the Andrew Murray Prize.
Cloete mostly wrote under the penname T.
Jansen van Rensburg (his grandfather's name) and published numerous of his poems in magazines under the penname to test the water before his 1980 debut Angelliera.