Dj opperman biography

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Diederik Johannes Opperman was born on 29 September on the farm Geduld No2 near Dundee, Natal.

He attended school in Estcourt and Vryheid. He studied at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg (MA, , thesis: Die Afrikaanse kritiek tot ) and the University of Cape Town (DLit, , thesis: Digters van Dertig).
Teacher in Pietermaritzburg
Teacher in Johannesburg
Opperman's first poetry book, Heilige beeste, published in , was the beginning of a long and lustrous career as one of South Africa's greatest Afrikaans poets.
- Journalist at Die Huisgenoot in Cape Town
From Co-editor of Standpunte
- Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Cape Town
In appeared, to great acclaim, Periandros van Korinthe.

It is also South Africa's very first Afrikaans drama set in verse.
Rembrandt bursary gives him the opportunity for extensive travels through Europe.
Professor of Afrika