Michaels heyns biography

South African author, translator and academic

Michiel Heyns (born 2 December ) 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 until

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 ()
• The Reluctant Passenger, Jonathan Ball ()
• The Typewriter's Tale, Jonathan Ball ()
• Bodies Politic, Jonathan Ball ()
• Lost Ground, Jonathan Ball ()
• Invisible Furies, Jonathan Ball ()
• A Sportful Malice, Jonathan Ball ()
• I am Pandarus, Jonathan Ball ()
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Michiel Heyns was born in the university town of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and after graduation from that university and from the University of Cambridge in England, spent the better, or at any rate larger, part of his life lecturing in English at his alma mater. During this time his writing was mainly confined to academic studies (his monograph Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century novel appeared from Oxford University Press in ), but eventually he realized that if he was ever going to write the novel he was surely destined to write, he'd better do so fairly soon. This realization produced The Children's Day, his first novel, and also the first to be published in the US. The success of this novel emboldened him to take early retirement and to write full-time; he has since published six more novels in South Africa, a seventh due to appear early in Some of his novels have been translated into Dutch, Afrikaans, French, and Chinese. The French translation of The Typewriter&#

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Michael Heyns was born in in Potchefstroom and obtained his Fine Arts degree in from the University of Pretoria. His creative ability and insight enabled him to capture moods and convey these visually. He came across Ikebana in a series, published on Japan, and was impressed by the simplicity and ‘silences’ evoked by this style.

Subsequently Music began to play an important role in his life and has since remained part of his inspiration. The ‘musical themes’ of his abstract compositions, capture rhythm and sound waves. Secondly in during his final year Michael was awarded the SA Arts Association’s New Signatures award for his painting, Seetoneel. After that his first one-man exhibition was held the following year.

Michael’s distinctive paint application, sometimes wet layers on dry paint, pale colour on a dark background and subtle shades of colour have become distinguished features of his work. Accents of colour such as bright cycad pods, red poppies and indigo colours, have alwa