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May 31, 1924 Vredefort, Free State, South Africa Died on 09 Jul 2015 (aged 91)
South African poet and writer
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About T.t. Cloete
- Theunis Theodorus Cloete (1924–2015) was a renowned Afrikaans poet, Bible translator, essayist and academic.
- In the 1970s he was involved in the revision of the ''Afrikaanse Kerkgesange'' and later in the 1993 translation of the Bible.
- Cloete was linked to The University of Potchefstroom's (now North-West University) School of Language and Literature.
- He has won numerous literary awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize, W.A.
- Hofmeyr Prize, Hertzog Prize (twice) and the Andrew Murray Prize.
- Cloete mostly wrote under the penname T.
- Jansen van Rensburg (his grandfather's name) and published numerous of his poems in magazines under the penname to test the water before his 1980 debut Angelliera.
