Daniel Hugo

Dr. Daniel Hugo (born in Stellenbosch, South Africa on 26 February 1955) was a specialist announcer / producer for Radiosondergrense, the national Afrikaans radio, and is also responsible for the literary programmes “Leeskring" and "Vers en Klank”. As of April 2008 he is director of Huis der Nederlanden in Pinelands, Cape Town.

Daniel Hugo has a B.A.Honours degree (Afrikaans and Dutch) from the University of Stellenbosch and later did his Masters degree at the University of Pretoria. Between 1980 and 1988 he worked as a lecturer of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Free State. During 1983 he studied at the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium. He was awarded his doctorate in 1989 for his thesis “Afrikaans poetry of wit”.

Daniel Hugo has written 12 poetry albums, the latest "Die Twaalfde Letter" in 2002, and has also compiled numerous "bloemlesings" (poetry and short stories). He has translated several books by the following writers from Dutch to Afrikaans including Tom Lanoye, Herman de Coninck, Harry Mulisch, Herman van Veen, Karel Glastra van Loon and David van Reybrouck.

He is married to the acclaimed children's book writer Carina Diedericks-Hugo and lives in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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