Daniel Hugo

Who is Daniel Hugo?

Dr. Daniel Hugo was a specialist announcer / producer for Radiosondergrense, the national Afrikaans radio, and was also responsible for the literary programmes "Leeskring" and "Vers en Klank". He is an editor at the publishing house Protea Boekhuis.

Daniel Hugo has a B.A.Honours degree 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 14 poetry albums, the latest "Hanekraai" in 2012, and has also compiled numerous "bloemlesings". 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 journalist Marlene Malan and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.