Marlise Joubert

Biografie:

Marlise Joubert is gebore in Elim naby Levubu. Sy voltooi haar skoolloopbaan op Warmbad [Bela Bela] in die Waterberge en verwerf ʼn BA (Bibl.) en honneursgraad in Filosofie aan die Universiteit van Pretoria. Sy word bibliotekaresse by verskeie instansies en werk ook as joernalis by tye. In 1971 debuteer sy met die digbundel ʼn Boot in die woestyn. Daarna volg nog vyf digbundels waarvan die jongste, passies en passasies,  [2007] by Protea Boekhuis verskyn het. [Volg die skakel op die tuisblad van http://www.proteaboekhuis.co.za indien jy graag hierdie boek wil bestel.]

Sy het drie romans gepubliseer te wete Klipkus, Oranje Meraai en Ateljee van Glas. Klipkus het in Nederlands verskyn as Rode Granaat (1981). Sy skryf ook verskeie radiodramas wat reeds vier keer pryse van die RSG/Sanlam radiodrama-kompetisie verower het. Nadat sy 16 jaar lank vir die Departement Beeldende Kunste by Universteit van Stellenbosch gewerk het, word sy ’n algemene assistent vir vyf jaar lank by Protea Boekwinkel op Stellenbosch. Sy is getroud met die digter Louis Esterhuizen en hulle woon op Stellenbosch, Suid-Afrika. Hulle was albei betrokke by die organisering van die Versindaba,  ‘n poësiefees wat elke jaar plaasvind vir Afrikaanse digters. Tans bedryf hulle saam die webblad Versindaba.

Lees resensies oor die Versindaba

Onderhoud op LitNet

Marlise skryf en skilder tans voltyds.

Biography:

Marlise Joubert is a fulltime painter as well as a well-known Afrikaans writer. She mainly does watercolor paintings. To paint in different mediums has been a passion she has exploited for many years and once took part in a exhibition at Stellenbosch in the nineties. It is only now that she can devote herself full time to this art form: “Water colour is a continuation of my poetry which has always been very visual and stating who I really am. I find it satisfying to create a scene or idea in soft or bright watercolours, to make the white of the paper an integral part of the atmosphere and to explore all the techniques available to the artist in this medium. Hopefully this medium will also find prominence locally as it already has overseas.”

Marlise has studied in Librarianship and Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. For a few years she was a journalist as well. She worked for 16 years at the department of Fine Arts at the US and for another 5 years at the Protea Book Shop in Stellenbosch where she lives. Her publications include 6 volumes of poetry and 3 novels. Four of her radio dramas won prizes with the RSG/Sanlam radio competition. Her new volume of poetry, passies en passasies, has just been published [2007] by Protea Book House. To order, follow the link to Protea Boekhuis on the main page.

Marlise is married to the poet, Louis Esterhuizen and they live and work in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

They are both webmasters of the website Versindaba, a poetry web for Afrikaans poetry, with interaction from poets of  Netherland and Belgium.

Toekennings/Awards:

2001: Sanlam/RSG radio drama competition for Beginners (first prize)
2002: Sanlam/RSG radio drama competition (third prize)
2003: Sanlam/ RSG radio drama competition (second prize)
2005: Sanlam/ RSG radio drama competition (third prize)

Publikasies/publications by the author:

’n Boot in die Woestyn, Perskor, 1971

Domus, Tafelberg, 1973

So ver en verder, Perskor, 1976

Klipkus, Tafelberg, 1978

Rode Granaat (Dutch translation of Klipkus), Anthos, Amsterdam, 1979

Ontruiming, Haum Literêr, 1986

Oranje Meraai, Tafelberg, 1996

Lyfsange, Protea Boekhuis, 2001

Ateljee van Glas, Protea Boekhuis, 2004

Versindaba 2006, Protea Boekhuis, 2006

Passies en Passasies, Protea Boekhuis, 2007 

Versindaba 2007, Protea Boekhuis, 2007

Versindaba 2008, Protea Boekhuis, 2008

Versindaba 2009, Protea Boekhuis, 2009

English translations of some Afrikaans poems