Hulde aan die Helde – Peter Blum

Peter Blum is regarded as the strongest innovative voice of the 1950s regarding language exploration, style, and themes and the most crucial poet who unmasked falsehoods. He was of Austrian descent and moved to South Africa with his parents in 1936. He worked as a librarian in Cape Town and the Free State. His ambition was to deliberately expand Afrikaans, although he did not believe in the language’s survival. Blum’s debut poetry collection, Steenbok tot Poolsee: verse (Nationale Boekhandel Beperk, 1955), was reprinted six times. In 1960, he left South Africa after South African citizenship was twice denied to him, and he settled in London. Blum will be remembered as the poet whose voice grew silent and who, embittered towards Afrikaans and South Africa, died in poverty in a foreign land. From the tribute collection by Professors Henning Pieterse and Andries Visagie: Peter Blum, Liminale Digter in die (Suid-)Afrikaanse poësielandskap: ’n Huldiging. 

R40 NALN 17 Jul 18:00 ATKV Boeke-oase 60 min Afrikaans