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John van Melle
John van Melle (February 11, 1887 - November 8, 1953) was 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 link
- http://www.leidenuniv.nl/host/mnl/mnl/levens/55-56/melle.htm (in Afrikaans)
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