Jan Rabie

Jan Rabie
Born	(1920-11-14)14 November 1920 George, Western Cape, South Africa
Died	15 November 2001(2001-11-15) (aged 81) Onrus
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	South African

Jan Sebastian Rabie (14 November 1920 - 15 November 2001) was an Afrikaans writer of short stories, novels and other literary works. He was born in George, and was the writer of twenty-one works. He was included under the Sestigers, a group of influential Afrikaans writers of the 1960s.

Novels

Note: The English titles are translated from the Afrikaans, and are not available as such.

• Nog skyn die sterre (Still the stars are shining) (1943)
• Geen somer (No summer) (1944)
• Vertrou op môre (Believe in tomorrow) (1946)
• Die pad na mekaar (The road to one another) (1947)
• Dakkamer en agterplaas (Attic and backyard) (1957)
• Swart ster oor die Karoo (Black star over the Karoo) (1957)
• Ons, die afgod (Us, the idol) (1958)
• Die groen planeet (The green planet) (1961)
• Mens-alleen (Man alone) (1963)
• Die groot anders-maak (The great changing) (1964)
• Eiland voor Afrika (Island before Africa) (1964)
• Waar jy sterwe (Where you die) (1966)
• Klipwieg (Stone crib) (1970)
• Die hemelblom (The heavenly flower) (1971)
• Ark (Ark) (1977)
• Johanna se storie (Johanna's story) (1981)
• En oseaan (And Ocean) (1985)

Short stories

• Een-en-twintig (Twenty-one) (1956)
• Die roos aan die pels (The rose on the fur) (1966)
• Versamelverhale (Collected novels) (1980)

Non-fiction

• Groen reise (Green travels) (1950)
• Die evolusie van nasionalisme (The evolution of nationalism) (1960)
• Polemika, (Polemic) 1957-1965 (1966)
• ’n Haan vir Eloúnda (A rooster for Eloúnda) (1971)
• ’n Boek vir Onrus (A book for Onrus) (1982)
• Buidel (Pouch) (1989)
• Paryse dagboek (Paris diary) (1998)

Young adult novels

• Twee strandlopers (Two beachwalkers) (1960)
• Seeboek van die sonderkossers (Sea book for those without food) (1975)

External links

• Stellenbosch writers