Pieter-Dirk Uys
Autor de Elections and Erections: A Memoir of Fear and Fun
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Pieter-Dirk Uys
Obras de Pieter-Dirk Uys
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Uys, Pieter-Dirk
- Otros nombres
- Bezuidenhout, Evita
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1945-09-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- South Africa
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Lugares de residencia
- Darling, South Africa
- Ocupaciones
- satirist
Playwright
ambassador
author
social activist - Relaciones
- Bezuidenhout, Evita (alter ego)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Miembros
- 83
- Popularidad
- #218,811
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 27
- Idiomas
- 3
Something that he doesn't boast about, but which comes over very clearly in the writing is Uys's ability to create a character in a few words - just have a look at his sketches of the local kids in the opening and closing chapters of this book. It's a trick, of course, and it must be a skill you need to learn when you're writing for the theatre or for newspaper columns, but it still impresses me every time. Uys may not claim to be an Afrikaans Rudyard Kipling or P.G. Wodehouse, but he does share at least one thing with them!… (más)