Anna M. Louw

Who was Anna M. Louw?

Anna M. Louw was an author from South Africa. She was born on a farm near Calvinia. She studied English, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French and Psychology at Stellenbosch University before living in New York for two years. On her return to South Africa, she studied at the University of Cape Town, and later started writing. She had seven children from two different husbands. Under apartheid, she worked as a censor, e.g. for a novel of nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee. She died in Cape Town.