Dana Snyman
Playwright, Author
Who is Dana Snyman?
Dana Snyman is an award-winning South African journalist, writer and playwright.
Snyman was born in Stellenbosch and matriculated from Nylstroom High School. He later followed a journalism course at the Pretoria Technikon before joining the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld as a crime reporter.
Three years later he became a journalist at Huisgenoot magazine, where he worked for ten years. As of 2007, Snyman is the travel editor of Weg! magazine.
His first book, Uit die binneland was published in 2005 and his second, Anderkant die scrap, in 2006. Both are collected short-short stories and schetches.
Snyman's first play, the one-man comedy Die Uwe, Pottie Potgieter, was first performed in 2006 by Frank Opperman and was the runner-up for the AngloGold Ashanti/Aardklop-Smeltkroes Award for new texts in the same year.
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