Pieter-Dirk Uys
Autore di Elections and Erections: A Memoir of Fear and Fun
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Pieter-Dirk Uys
Opere di Pieter-Dirk Uys
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Uys, Pieter-Dirk
- Altri nomi
- Bezuidenhout, Evita
- Data di nascita
- 1945-09-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- South Africa
- Luogo di nascita
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Luogo di residenza
- Darling, South Africa
- Attività lavorative
- satirist
Playwright
ambassador
author
social activist - Relazioni
- Bezuidenhout, Evita (alter ego)
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Utenti
- 83
- Popolarità
- #218,811
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 27
- Lingue
- 3
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!… (altro)