Draft:Zelda Bezuidenhout

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Submission declined on 15 August 2024 by Utopes (talk).

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Comment: Why has this been resubmitted? A single (close primary) source, once cited, is nowhere near enough to establish notability of any flavour, or even to verify the vast majority of the draft content. DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:03, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Comment: No external links in the body; Wikipedia should not be used as a way to advertise one's work. Focus only on the information that has been significantly covered by reliable sources in the article. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 12:22, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Comment: WP:External links must be removed. microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 18:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

An editor has marked this as a promising draft because "a film has been made based on one of the subject's novels, which could satisfy WP:AUTHOR #3", and requests that, should it go unedited for six months, G13 deletion be postponed, either by making a dummy/minor edit to the page, or by improving and submitting it for review.
Last edited by DoubleGrazing (talk | contribs) 50 days ago. (Update)

Zelda Bezuidenhout is a writer of Afrikaans novels, including youth novels, and radio dramas.

Biography

Zelda Bezuidenhout (née Nel) is a South African author, was born in Zambia and moved to South Africa as a young girl. After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Communication at the University of the Free State she worked as an advertising copywriter in Johannesburg for most of her adult life. and only started writing Afrikaans novels at the age of 56.

Work

Her first novel, an Afrikaans youth novel As mens geluk kon proe, was the runner-up in LAPA Publishers Youth Novel competition of 2018. It has since been translated into English and was published as Confessions of a Ginger Pudding in 2021. Her first novel for adults, Die dekonstruksie van Retta Blom, was published in 2019 by NB Publishers^[1]and has subsequently been adapted for film. The film premiered at the Silwerskermfees, an Afrikaans film festival, in Cape Town.

Several other Young Adult novels and a suspense novel, Die waarde van stil bure, followed. In 2023, she was once again the runner-up in LAPA Publishers Youth Novel competition with her Young Adult manuscript Quinn se jaar van kwik. The novel is set for publication in October 2024.

Bezuidenhout and a writing partner won the first prize in an Afrikaans audio drama competition with an entry called Koppelkat.

Many of Bezuidenhout’s short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines. She also had a regular column which ran for three years in the ATKV magazine, Taalgenoot.

References

^ "NB Publishers | die dekonstruksie van Retta Blom".

[1] "NB Publishers | die dekonstruksie van Retta Blom".

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