Jochem van Bruggen

…folk of farms and villages—Jochem van Bruggen and Jan van Melle. The two foremost Romantic novelists were D.F. Malherbe, who wrote numerous prolix narratives on Biblical themes and South African pioneering history; and C.M. van den Heever, whose work is based mostly on the Afrikaner’s conflicts in the transition…

…especially in the work of Jochem van Bruggen, who wrote a trilogy, the first part of which was Ampie, die natuurkind (1931; “Ampie, the Child of Nature”), a study of a poor white in South Africa. A.A. Pienaar (pseudonym Sangiro) wrote popular books about animals. Drama also began to flourish…