T.T. Cloete South African Poet
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Details
| Birthday |
30th November, 1923
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| Birthplace |
Vredefort, Orange Free State
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| Died |
9th July, 2015
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| Place of Death |
Potchefstroom
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| Nationality |
South African
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| Occupation Text |
Academic, Poet
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| Occupation |
Poet
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| Official Websites |
http://www.ttcloete.com/
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Theunis Theodorus Cloete (31 May 1924 – 9 July 2015) was a South African 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.
