Author Profile
CHRIS VAN WYK
 CHRIS
VAN WYK was born in Soweto and grew up in Riverlea, where he still
lives and works as a full-time writer of books for children and
teenagers, short stories and novels.
He has written poetry and won the 1979 Olive
Schreiner Award for his collection of poems, It is Time to go Home.
In 1997 he was awarded the Sanlam Prize for the best
South African short story of the previous year, and his first novel The
Year of the Tapeworm was published in 1998. His 2004 childhood
memoir, Shirley, Goodness & Mercy, became a best seller and
was turned into a successful play by director Janice Honeyman.
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