Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Pieter W. Grobbelaar
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Description area
Dates of existence
25 December 1930 - 19 January 2013
History
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using wikipedia: Pieter Willem Grobbelaar was a South African author primarily known for his children's and youth stories. He started his career as a journalist at Die Burger and continued it at Die Volksblad in Bloemfontein. He became director of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1956. In 1984 he became a professor in the Department of African Culture at the University of Stellenbosch. He died in 2013.]
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