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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

A worldly and urbane journalist living in London, Daniel is a young gay man with no relationships outside of sexual ones. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, he nonetheless returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Following his father’s death, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man’s will: he will only inherit his half of his father’s considerable estate once he has spent time with Theon, a cousin whom he hasn’t seen since they were boys, who lives on the old family farm in the Free State. Once there, Daniel discovers that the young son of the woman Theon lives with is seriously ill. With the conditions bearing on Daniel’s inheritance shifting in real time, Theon and Daniel travel with the boy to Japan for an experimental cure and a voyage that will change their lives forever.