S J Naudé

S J Naudé

S J Naudé is an author whose work is published in Afrikaans, English and Dutch.

He studied law at Cambridge University and Columbia Law School and worked as a lawyer in New York and London for many years.

Since turning his hand to writing, he has authored a collection of short stories, The Alphabet of Birds, and a novel, The Third Reel, for which he has won several literary prizes. His work has also appeared in Granta and a number of international journals.

He currently lives in Johannesburg.

Books by S J Naudé

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The Novelist and the Tyrants by S J Naudé
The Novelist and the Tyrants by S J Naudé

In the South Africa of the 1970s and 80s, political writing was practically the only mode that was available to writers who wanted to be taken seriously. And coupled with the need to integrate a critique of the inhumane system of apartheid into one’s…