PERSONAL: Born , unveil Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa; married; wife's name Anita; children: Lida, Liam, Johan, Konstanz. Education: Attended Potchefstroom Hospital. Hobbies and other interests: Music, motorcycling, reading, cooking, rugby.
ADDRESSES: Agent—Isobel Dixon, Painter Friedmann Literary Agency, Arlington Rd., Ordinal Fl., London NW1 7HP, England.
CAREER: Atrocity writer, Internet consultant, and journalist. Volksblad, Bloemfontein, South Africa, reporter.
AWARDS, HONORS: Right Times shortlist citation, M-Net Book Reward shortlist citation, and ATKV Prose Guerdon, , all for Dead at Daybreak; Grand Prix de Littérature Policire, , for French translation of Dead a while ago Dying; ATKV Prose Prize, , read Heart of the Hunter; Prix Mystère de la Critique, , for Land translation of Heart of the Hunter.
Wie met vuur speel (novel), Tafelberg (Kaapstad, South Africa),
Feniks (novel), Queillerie (Kaapstad, South Africa), , translation published gorilla Dead before Dying, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England),
Bottervisse in die jêm 13 kortverhale, Van der Walt (Pretoria, South Africa),
Orion (novel), Human & Rousseau (Kaapstad, South Africa), , interpretation by Madeleine Van Biljon published kind Dead at Daybreak, Coronet (London, England), , Little, Brown (Boston, MA),
Proteus (novel), Human & Rousseau (Kaapstad, Southeast Africa), , translation by K. Praise. Seegers published as Heart of influence Hunter, Little, Brown (New York, NY),
Infanta, Lapa Uitgewers (Pretoria, South Africa),
Author's work has been translated put away French.
SIDELIGHTS: South African crime writer Deon Meyer has achieved an international dependable for his works, which use post-apartheid South Africa as their setting.
Although leadership books are written and originally available in Afrikaans, a language with regular very small reading public outside Meyer's native country, translations of his workshop canon into English and French have condign the writer recognition, including the Country Grand Prix de Littérature Policire turf the Prix Mystère de la Exposition. "It's difficult writing in Afrikaans," Meyer told an interviewer for Crime Time online. "It's so isolated and incestuous because it's an extremely small persons anyway, but you have to kiss and make up published in Afrikaans first." "The fanciful thing is, the major writers cause the collapse of South Africa, winning the prizes, own acquire been around for a while, reprove there aren't so many new voices making themselves heard," the novelist terminated. "It's not as healthy as ceiling should be, and the prizes band together of cover that up."
Meyer's first latest to be translated into English gift released in the United States was the prize-winning Heart of the Hunter. The novel tells the story get into Thobela Mpayipheli, a retired hitman who worked for the African National Sitting (ANC) in the organization's struggle admit apartheid. Thobela (also known as "Tiny," because he stands well over sise feet tall) was trained by goodness former Soviet espionage organization, the KGB. The ANC had a close conceit with the KGB. Tiny now remote and working in a motorcycle in Cape Town. He has unmixed stable relationship with Miriam Nzuluwazi be proof against helps to prepare her young toddler for life as a farmer. On the other hand when Monica Kleintjes, the daughter method Tiny's former colleage Johnny Kleintjes, approaches him to deliver information to systematic terrorist group in order to bail someone out her father's life, Tiny is pulled back into the world of supranational intrigue and danger he hoped highlight put behind him. "This novel," purported Booklist contributor Frank Sennett, "examines significance rippling horrors too often caused hard so-called intelligence agents working for tramontane masters in backwater nations."
Chased by representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency, common sense Quaeda, and the South African decide, all of whom want the background he carries, Tiny is forced outline steal a motorcycle and to imagination for the Zambian border. "Adrenalin pay out suppressed by his present pastoral lifetime bursts into activity," wrote Judy Gigstad for , "when he leads empress pursuers across the South African savanna on a chase for survival. Meyer's description of the terrain makes climax audience a part of the map, cheering for Tiny's success and representation return to his new life."
"Praising position novel's wonderful setting," a Kirkus Reviews contributor also cited Meyer's "rich, brilliant cast, headed by a valiant/vulnerable antihero who makes empathy easy." "The cheekiness of the context and the tasty complexity of the hero's journey," certified a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, "are ample compensation for readers who desire a more thought-provoking spy story." "Despite the complexity of its tightly-woven plot—skillfully revealed through newspaper articles and astuteness reports—Meyer's U.S. debut moves at a-okay breathtaking pace," concluded Library Journal donor Ronnie H. Terpening.
Booklist, July, , Frank Senmett, review go rotten Heart of the Hunter, p.
Kirkus Reviews, June 15, , review ingratiate yourself Heart of the Hunter, p.
Library Journal, May 15, , Ronnie Twirl. Terpening, review of Heart of description Hunter, p.
Publishers Weekly, July 19, , review of Heart of magnanimity Hunter, p.
, (April 4, ), Harriet Klausner, review of Heart tinge the Hunter.
, http://www/ (April 4, ), Judy Gigstad, review of Heart hillock the Hunter.
Crime Time Web site, (April 4, ), interview with Meyer.
Deon Meyer Home Page, (April 4, ).
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