Riana Scheepers

was born in Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal and learned to speak Zulu at a young age. Scheepers studied Afrikaans and Dutch languages at the University of die Vrystaat in Bloemfontein and, among others, was a teacher at the Zululand and Cape Town universities. In her novels and short stories, Scheepers uses themes and motives from native oral storytelling traditions. Her work has a feminist character. Her most recent novel Stormkind (2018) is a poetic and sensorial story about a farm girl who is adopted into the culture of the San, the region's native inhabitants.