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Ingrid
Winterbach was born in Johannesburg and educated at the
Universities of the Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch.
She lectured in the Department of Creative Arts at the
University of Stellenbosch for thirteen years, and subsequently
for five years in the Department of Afrikaans-Nederlands at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal.
She
has published nine novels, the first five under the pseudonymn
Lettie Viljoen, and various shorter prose pieces.
Three of her novels have been translated into English, and
two into Dutch.
Her work is published both in Europe and in the United
States.
Winterbach
has received numerous literary awards, amongst others the
prestigious Hertzog Prize, the M-Net Book Prize (twice), the W.A.
Hofmeyr Prize (twice) and the University of Johannesburg Prize for
Fiction (Afrikaans).
Ingrid
Winterbach is both a writer and a visual artist and has been
writing and making art full-time for the past eight years.
She is married to the painter Andries Gouws, lives in
Durban and has two daughters.
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