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S.J. Naudé

Biography

S.J. Naudé

S.J. Naudé is the author of two collections of short stories and two novels. He is the winner of the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize and the kykNet-Rapport prize, and is the only writer to win the Hertzog Prize twice consecutively in its 100-year history. His first novel, THE THIRD REEL, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times prize. His work has been published in Granta and other journals in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Italy.

S.J. Naudé

Books by S.J. Naudé

Fathers and Fugitives
written by S.J. Naudé, translated by Michiel Heyns - Fiction

Estranged from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonetheless returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Shortly after arriving in Cape Town, however, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man’s will. He will inherit his share of his father’s estate only if he spends time with Theon, a cousin whom he hasn’t seen since they were boys, and who lives on a sprawling farm in the Free State. With the conditions bearing on Daniel’s inheritance shifting in real time, Theon and Daniel travel to Japan to seek out an experimental cure for the son of the woman Theon lives with. The trip will change their lives forever.