Jochem van Bruggen
Jochem van Bruggen | |
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Jochem van Bruggen | |
| Born | Jochem van Bruggen September 29, 1881 Groede, Netherlands |
| Died | February 22, 1957 (aged 75) Magaliesburg, South Africa |
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| Notable works | Teleurgestel (1916) Ampie: Die Natuurkind (1925) Ampie: Die Meisiekind (1927) Die Sprinkaanbeampte van Sluis (1933) |
| Notable awards | Hertzog Prize for Afrikaans prose (1917, 1925, 1927, 1933) |
| Spouse |
Maria Petronella Oosthuizen
(m. 1906) |
| Children |
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Jochem van Bruggen (1881–1957) was an Afrikaans author and the first winner of the Hertzog Prize for prose for his work Teleurgestel ("Disappointed") in 1917. He was part of the Second Afrikaans Language Movement and is best known for Ampie, a series about poor and destitute Afrikaners in South Africa during the Depression of 1920–1921.