Pieter-Dirk Uys
Autor(a) de Elections and Erections: A Memoir of Fear and Fun
About the Author
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Obras de Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys: Weerklink van 'n wanklank: Memoires van toe en nou (Afrikaans Edition) (2018) 6 cópias
P. W. Botha In His Own Words 1 exemplar(es)
The Echo of a Noise: A memoir of then and now 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Uys, Pieter-Dirk
- Outros nomes
- Bezuidenhout, Evita
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-09-28
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- South Africa
- Local de nascimento
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Locais de residência
- Darling, South Africa
- Ocupação
- satirist
Playwright
ambassador
author
social activist - Relacionamentos
- Bezuidenhout, Evita (alter ego)
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Membros
- 79
- Popularidade
- #226,897
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 26
- Idiomas
- 2
- Pedras de toque
- 13
Something that he doesn't boast about, but which comes over very clearly in the writing is Uys's ability to create a character in a few words - just have a look at his sketches of the local kids in the opening and closing chapters of this book. It's a trick, of course, and it must be a skill you need to learn when you're writing for the theatre or for newspaper columns, but it still impresses me every time. Uys may not claim to be an Afrikaans Rudyard Kipling or P.G. Wodehouse, but he does share at least one thing with them!… (mais)