Elsa joubert biography

Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert OIS (19 October 1922 – 14 June 2020) was a.
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert OIS was a Sestigers Afrikaans-language writer.
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the.

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Elsa Joubert

South African writer

Elsabé Antoinette Murray JoubertOIS (19 October 1922 – 14 June 2020) was a SestigersAfrikaans-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.^[1]

Early life and career

Elsa Joubert was born and raised in the Cape settlement of Paarl and matriculated from the all-girls school La Rochelle in Paarl in 1939. She then studied at the University of Stellenbosch from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942 and an SED (Secondary Education Diploma) in 1943. She continued her studies at the University of Cape Town which she left with a Master's degree in Dutch-Afrikaans literature in 1945.

After graduating, Joubert taught at the Hoër Meisieskool, an all-girls high school in Cradock, then worked as the editor of the women's pages of Huisgenoot, a well-known Afrikaans family magazine, from 1946 to 1948. She then started writing full-ti

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Elsa Joubert

Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA and SOD) and Cape Town (MA in Afrikaans-Nederlands).

Within two years of starting a career as a high school teacher in Cradock she became editor of Die Huisgenoot (1946-1948) and thereafter a full-time writer. Since then Joubert has written numerous novels, short stories, travelogues and plays.

Joubert’s works are mainly inspired by the continent of Africa, in which she has travelled extensively. Very early on in her career as a writer, Joubert rejected the strictures of mainstream Afrikaner writing and threw in her lot with the emerging Afrikaner literary dissident movement.

The publication in 1979 of her novel Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (translated by Joubert herself into English in 1980 as The long Journey of Poppie Nongena) - an epic tale of the endless adversity and struggle of a humble black woman under Apartheid laws - had a major impact, both in the lit

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Elsa Joubert

Elsa Joubert (1922-2020 ) [1] is a highly regarded Afrikaans novelist, travel-writer, journalist and playwright.

Biography

Born Elsabé Antoinette Joubert on 19 October 1922 in Paarl, where she grew up and matriculated from La Rochelle Girls' High in 1939. She studied at the University of Stellenbosch (B.A. in 1942 and S.E.D.) and University of Cape Town ( M.A. in Afrikaans-Nederlands (Afrikaans-Dutch), 1945). She was a teacher at the Hoër Meisieskool in Cradock and then worked as editor for Huisgenoot for two years (1946-1948). She then started writing full-time and travelled extensively in Africa, from the springs of the Nile in Uganda, through the Sudan, to Cairo, as well as to Mozambique, Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar, and Angola. She also visited Indonesia. She married the journalist and writer Klaas Steytler in 1950 and they had two daughters and a son. She died at the age of 97 on Sunday 14 June 2020 in Cape Town due to Covid-19 related causes.

Her writing career

Novels, travelogues and short stories

Besides writing on her travels, she produced a numb