Annari van der Merwe

(South Africa) followed in the seventies a postgraduate study at the De Vooijs-Instituut in Utrecht. After that she returned to Capetown where she became an editor of children's books at Tafelberg Publishers. Nowadays she is a publisher of Kwela Books, a small publishing house in the Nasboek Conglomerate. Since 1994 she publishes work of contemporary South African writers. South African literature is a better reflection of the whole population. Van der Merwe is a member of various boards, amongst others at Book Development Trust of South Africa. In 2003 she was invited for the third time by the Frankfurter Buchmesse, as part of the programme for small publishing houses from Asia, Africa and Latin America.