Menán Du Plessis Explained

Menán Du Plessis (born 1952) is a South African novelist and linguist.^[1]

Her debut novel A State of Fear won the 1985 Olive Schreiner Prize, and was a joint winner of the Sanlam Literary Prize in 1986.^[2]

Works

• A State of Fear. Cape Town: D. Philip, 1983. Republished by Pandora Press (1987).^[2]
• Longlive! Cape Town: D. Philip, 1989. Translated into German by Susanne Köhler as Das Lied der Gemeinschaft Roman.
• A unity hypothesis for the southern African Khoesan languages. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009.
• Kora: a lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2018.

Notes and References

1. Book: Douglas Killam. Ruth Rowe. The Companion to African Literatures. 2010. James Currey. 978-1-84701-019-3. 89. Du Plessis, Menán.
2. Book: Laura Chrisman. Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and Transnationalism. 2003. Manchester University Press. 978-0-7190-5828-8. 112.