Karel schoeman autobiography vs biography

          Schoeman penned 19 novels and numerous works of history as well as an autobiography, biographies, travel books and translations from German.

        1. Schoeman penned 19 novels and numerous works of history as well as an autobiography, biographies, travel books and translations from German.
        2. Born in in Trompsburg, South Africa, Karel Schoeman matriculated in from Paarl Boys' High School.
        3. Author of twenty novels and numerous works of history, he was one of South Africa's most honoured writers.
        4. Prolific and versatile, Karel Schoeman wrote 19 collections of prose and some 46 works of non-fiction, biography, historical writing.
        5. During his lifetime he published more than thirty novels as well as several historical and autobiographical works.

          6. Author of twenty novels and numerous works of history, he was one of South Africa's most honoured writers.!

          Obituary: Karel Schoeman, solitary writer who shunned international fame

          Karel Schoeman, who has died in Bloemfontein at the age of 77, was one of South Africa's greatest and most prolific authors.

          He wrote 19 novels and at least 46 meticulously researched works of history, biography and travel, many of them while working as an archivist at the South African National Library in Cape Town.

          He won multiple awards including the Recht Malan Prize for "excellence in the field of nonfiction books" four times; the Hertzog Prize, the most prestigious Afrikaans literary award, three times; and the CNA Award twice.

          He was shortlisted in 2014 for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for nonfiction for Bailie's Party: The Old World, 1757-1819, about a large party of 1820 Settlers from Britain led by John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family.

          In the book, Schoeman traces the background of the settlers and brings them to life in a way that was uniquely his.

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