Pieter-Dirk Uys
Autor/a de Elections and Erections: A Memoir of Fear and Fun
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Pieter-Dirk Uys
Obres de Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys: Weerklink van 'n wanklank: Memoires van toe en nou (Afrikaans Edition) (2018) 6 exemplars
The Echo of a Noise: A memoir of then and now 1 exemplars
P. W. Botha In His Own Words 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Uys, Pieter-Dirk
- Altres noms
- Bezuidenhout, Evita
- Data de naixement
- 1945-09-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- South Africa
- Lloc de naixement
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Llocs de residència
- Darling, South Africa
- Professions
- satirist
Playwright
ambassador
author
social activist - Relacions
- Bezuidenhout, Evita (alter ego)
Membres
Ressenyes
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 18
- Membres
- 83
- Popularitat
- #218,811
- Valoració
- 3.4
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 27
- Llengües
- 3
Something that he doesn't boast about, but which comes over very clearly in the writing is Uys's ability to create a character in a few words - just have a look at his sketches of the local kids in the opening and closing chapters of this book. It's a trick, of course, and it must be a skill you need to learn when you're writing for the theatre or for newspaper columns, but it still impresses me every time. Uys may not claim to be an Afrikaans Rudyard Kipling or P.G. Wodehouse, but he does share at least one thing with them!… (més)