Marlene van Niekerk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Marlene van Niekerk

South African author

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1954

Place of Birth: Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Marlene van Niekerk is a South African academic, novelist and poet who is best known internationally for her novels Triomf and Agaat.
Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg in Triomf brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South Africa.
This novel was made into an award-winning film, likewise called Triomf_(film), in 2008, directed by Michael Raeburn. She explains that the portraying the separation of the sexes in her work is the result of being "outside the main arena" as an Afrikaner lesbian.