| Etienne Leroux | |
| Birth Date: | 13 June 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, Union of South Africa |
| Death Date: | 30 December 1989 |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Alma Mater: | Grey College Bloemfontein Stellenbosch University |
| Birth Name: | Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux |
Etienne Leroux (born Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux; 13 June 1922 – 30 December 1989) was an Afrikaans writer and a member of the South African Sestigers literary movement.[1]
Etienne Leroux was born in Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape on 13 June 1922 as Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux, son of Stephanus Petrus le Roux, a South African Minister of Agriculture. He studied law at Stellenbosch University (BA, LLB) and worked for a short time at a solicitor's office in Bloemfontein. From 1946 he farmed and lived as a writer on his farm in the Koffiefontein district. Etienne was a pupil at Grey College Bloemfontein where he matriculated.
An English translation of his 1964 novel Een vir Azazel (lit. "One for Azazel") was published in 1968 as One for the Devil. In his book review for One for the Devil, Graham Greene wrote: "His audience will be the audience that only a good writer can merit, an audience which assembles slowly from far away in ones and twos; while the big book club motorcoaches hurtle down the highway toward oblivion, the rumour spreads that here an addition will be found to the literature of our time."[2]
He died on 30 December 1989, and was buried at the family church yard of Wamakersdrift, of which his farm formed part.
The English translations of Die Silberstein-trilogie were also published as a single volume: To a Dubious Salvation: A Trilogy of Fantastical Novels (Penguin, 1972).
A biography of Etienne Leroux, Leroux: 'n Lewe, by the respected biographer of Afrikaans writers, John Christoffel Kannemeyer, was published in July 2008.
Misterie van die alchemis. 'n Inleiding tot Etienne Leroux se negedelige romansiklus. (By Charles Malan)