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| A Mouthful of Glass |
Nominated ISBN: 186207383X |
Find out more about the author on the following websites: Sunday
Times article on A Mouthful of Glass
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| Henk Van Woerden | ||
| Translated from the Dutch by Dan Jacobson | ||
| Nominated by: | ||
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The Libraries of The Hague: NBLC, The Royal Library, and the Public Libraries, The Netherlands |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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One
day in 1966, in the chamber of the South African Parliament, Demitrios
Tsafendas walked up to Hendrik Verwoerd, the Prime Minister, and stabbed
him to death with a kitchen knife. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Henk
Van Woerden was
born in the Netherlands. As a child he was taken to South Africa by his
parents and spent his teenage years in Cape Town. After his return to
the Netherlands he became an artist and writer. He has published two novels.
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