Lina Spies
Carellina Pieternella Spies is an Afrikaans poet and academic.
She received both the 1972 Eugène Marais Prize and 1972 Ingrid Jonker Prize, for her first volume of poetry, Digby vergenoeg. Her translation of Anne Frank's diaries was awarded the translation prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns.
Spies studied philosophy, languages and literature at Stellenbosch University, the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Pretoria. She spent most of her career as a university lecturer, variously at the University of Port Elizabeth, the University of Pretoria and Stellenbosch University. From 1987 she was Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Stellenbosch University until her retirement in 1999. She still lives in the town of Stellenbosch.Volumes of poetry
- Digby Vergenoeg
- Winterhawe
- Dagreis
- Oorstaanson
- Van sjofar tot sjalom
- Hiermaals
- Die skaduwee van die son
- Duskant die einders
- Die skyn van tuiskoms - a selection from the poet's first 8 volumes of poetry, made by the poet Johann de Lange.
- Tydelose gety
- Sulamiet
Non-Fiction
- Ontmoetings
- Kolonnade: ’n Studie van DJ Opperman se bundels Heilige beeste, Negester oor Ninevé en Komas uit ’n bamboesstok binne verband van sy oeuvre
- Die enkel taak: Die merkwaardige verwantskap tussen Elisabeth Eybers en Emily Dickinson
- Agterhuis: Die dagboek van Anne Frank
- Tirza
As editor or compiler
- Majesteit, die kat: Verhale en gedigte oor katte
- Sy sien webbe roer: 'n Keuse uit die werk van Afrikaanse digteresse
- 'n Skrywer by sonsopkoms: Hennie Aucamp 70
