Posted on June 27, 2016
Anneli Groenewald completed her MA in Creative Writing under supervision of Prof Willie Burger in 2015. She completed a novel, Die skaalmodel. She entered the manuscript for the NB Publishers Great Novel Competition and it was awarded the debut prize. The novel was published was published by Tafelberg two months ago. It is set in Bredasdorp, a small town close to Skipskop, the fishing town from which all inhabitants were removed in the 1980's to make place for the NP government's missile test terrain. The neurotic museum curator of the struggling museum in Bredasdorp decides to build a scale model of Skipskop. This leads to hilarious situations, moving stories, social commentary, philosophical reflection on memory, history, forgetting and death - weaved together by an exceptional talent. The mini-dissertation focussed on the tension between aesthetic ideals and political engagement in Marlene van Niekerk's work by making use of Gumbrecht's theory on the "production of presence" in literary texts.
Anneli is a journalist who specialized in economic journalism before becoming an editor at Farmers Weekly. She also travels widely and often writes about these experiences.
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