John van Melle

John van Melle

John van Melle (February 11, 1887, Goes - November 8, 1953) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author. His real name was Johannes van Melle.

Van Melle arrived in South Africa in 1906, and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies, settled in South Africa permanently in 1913. He worked as a teacher in many rural schools and soon started to publish in both Dutch and the newly emerging Afrikaans language.

Van Melle's best known work is "Bart Nel", a classic of Afrikaans literature. It tells the tale of a farmer whose indomitable spirit allows him to survive the destruction and loss of his farm in wartime and being abandoned by his wife and family.

External links

* http://www.leidenuniv.nl/host/mnl/mnl/levens/55-56/melle.htm (in Afrikaans)


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