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Portrait image of Deon Meyer Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2022)

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Meyer, Deon

Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in Afrikaans, translated for the international market. He was born in Paarl in the Cape Province and grew up in Klerksdorp, in north-western South Africa where his father worked in a gold mine. Deon Meyer matriculated in 1976 at Schoonspruit High School in Klerksdorp. He gained a...

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Peter Duluth

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When his wife, Magdalena, dies in a fire, he starts drinking, becomes an alcoholic and ends up in a mental hospital. There, the young blond theatre agent Peter Duluth meets actress Iris Pattison, who is being treated for a depression. They get married after a while, and solve a number of murder cases, often in theatre settings, which have been described by Patrick Quentin (pseudonym for Richard...

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