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South African novelist and linguist
Menán Du Plessis (born 1952) is a South African novelist and linguist.
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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.
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Works
- A State of Fear. Cape Town: D. Philip, 1983. Republished by
Pandora Press (1987).
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- 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.
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