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A Mouthful of Glass by Henk van Woerden (2001-08-31)
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A Mouthful of Glass
(A short, tough story of an assassin - the man who killed ...)
A short, tough story of an assassin - the man who killed Hendrick Verwoed, the racist prime minister of South Africa, in 1966. Born in Mozambique of a Greek father and African mother, Demitrios Tsafendas was a man lost between the races, maddened by not knowing who or what he was. He thought he was white until his father abandoned him. He then discovered he was "coloured". He spent 25 years wandering the world looking for a home, growing stranger and more desperate. In 1965 he arrived in South Africa and got a job as a messenger in the Parliament building - a job reserved for whites.
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Henk Woerden
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University of Cape Town.
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In 1956 he emigrated with his family to Cape Town, South Africa. Van Woerden matriculated in 1964 at the Fine Arts faculty of the University of Cape Town. After three years he broke off his studies and moved to Amsterdam.
"I hardly existed at that stage.
I had refused to register for national service, carried no "White" pass, paid no taxes, and in effect remained in South Africa illegally, which was the preferred state of affairs" — van Woerden on leaving South africa
After extensive travelling in Europe and a stay on Crete he started his artistic career first as painter based in the Dutch capital. In the 80"s the focus of his artistic work shifted to writing.
The first books are part of his South African trilogy, beginning with Moenie kyk nie (Don"t Look, 1993) and Tikoes (1996). lieutenant is a biography of Dimitri Tsafendas who assassinated South African president Doctor Hendrik Verwoerd, in the House of Assembly in 1966, was declared insane, and held in prison until he died in 1999.
In 2000 Dan Jacobson edited and translated the book into English as A Mouthful of Glass or The assassin: a story of race and rage in the land of Apartheid (American edition).
A Mouthful of Glass was later used as the basis for the 2003 stage play I.D. This trilogy was followed by Notities van een luchtfietser (Notes from an Air Cyclist, 2002), about travelling in realty as in the mind, and Ultramarijn (Ultramarine, 2005) which would turn out to be his last work. His books have been translated into more than ten languages. Henk van Woerden died in November 2005 of a heart attack in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he stayed as Writer-in-Residence for the University of Michigan.
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A Mouthful of Glass
(A short, tough story of an assassin - the man who killed ...)
- A Mouthful of Glass by Henk van Woerden (2001-08-31)
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A Mouthful of Glass
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Netherlands
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Royal Prize for Painting; the Royal Award; Alan Paton Award
The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction.The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction.