Diphete Bopape

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Heniel Diphete D. Bopape (born 1957) is a South African novelist, playwright and journalist. [1]

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Biography

Bopape was born in Transvaal Province, in what today is Limpopo. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Unisa in 1987. At the time he was lecturing full-time at Dr. C.N. Phatudi College. [2] He is the owner and editor of Seipone, a vernacular newspaper in Limpopo. [3]

Lenong la Gauta (1982) pioneered the detective novel genre in Sepedi. [4]

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Plays
Novels
Short story collections

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References

  1. Phaswane Mpe, "Bopape, Heniel Diphete D.", in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN   978-0-415-23019-3. Online version
  2. "Bopape, H. D. N. | Literatur im Kontext". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  3. Limpopo Leader 1, August 2004
  4. Erika Terblanche, Poëtikale opvattings Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine , citing M. J. Mojalefa & N. I. Magapa (2007), "Mystery in Sepedi detective stories", Literator 28(1), April: 121-140.


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