Botes, Annelie (Personal Name)

Trippel sewe, 1995: title page (Annelie Botes)

SANB correspondence with author, November 2, 1995 (full name: Botes, Annelie; maiden name: Basson; date of birth: June 28, 1957)

nb.co.za WWW site viewed October 3, 2018: Annelie Botes (Born in June 1957 on the farm Grootfontein in the Kammanassie near Uniondale. She was baptised and schooled in Uniondale, and got married there. She attained a teaching licentiate in piano at Unisa in 1986. She has been a music teacher and a church organist among other things. Her first writing was published in Die Brandwag when she was 18. After many years of silence, she picked up writing again in 1994. More or less 50 of her short stories and novellas have been published in Huisgenoot, Sarie and Rooi Rose. She debuted in 1995 with the novel Trippel Sewe. Later in 1995 Ribbokvoete was published, and in 1997 Klawervier, for which she received the ATKV prize for popular prose, was published by Tafelberg Publishers. She is well known for her popular Goeie Môre column in Volksblad and Van Alle Kante column in Die Burger. She is also a popular guest speaker) http://www.nb.co.za/authors/1599