How to Write: Tips from Michiel Heyns

In the fourth installment of READ SA's "How To Write" series, Michiel Heyns shares some writing tips with us.

Michiel Heyns, who writes in both English and Afrikaans, is the author of several novels – most recently, Bodies Politic, which won the Herman Charles Bosman award.

He is also a noted translator and won, with Marlene van Niekerk, the 2007 Sunday Times Fiction Prize for the English translation of van Niekerk’s Agaat.

Here are Michiel Heyns’ tips

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