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- Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert OIS (19 October 1922 – 14 June 2020) was a Sestigers Afrikaans-language writer. She rose to prominence with her novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena), which was translated into 13 languages, as well as staged as a drama and filmed as Poppie Nongena - Wikipedia
Elsa was married to the late journalist and writer, Klaas Steytler.
- In 2002, Elsa Joubert was listed as one of the 100 best authors on the African continent. She is, however, not that well known outside the Afrikaans-speaking community of South Africa, despite English translations of her novels, such as To die at sunset (1963), The last Sunday (1983), The four friends and other tales from Africa (1987), Isobelle’s journey (1998) and, especially, the novel which earned her a place among the chosen hundred, The long journey of Poppie Nongena; that is, until Irene M Wainwright took the courageous decision to translate the two volumes of Joubert’s autobiography, A lion on the landing: Memories of youth (Hemel & See, 2014) and A daughter of Africa: Writing through the apartheid years (Kindle, 2017). [1]
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