He finished his academic career at the University of Witwatersrand as head of the Dutch/Afrikaans department.ĭ.J. He received an honorary degree from the University of Utrecht in 1948 and was a professor of Afrikaans at the University of Amsterdam from 1949 to 1958. He earned a master's degree in German at the University of Cape Town, where he later taught. van Wyk Louw moved to Cape Town at the age of 14. Louw was published by Hemel & See Boeke in 2011 under the title 'Briewe van W.E.G. The South African composer Cromwell Everson composed a song cycle, 'Vier Liefdesliedjies' ('Four little love songs') that used three of Louw's poems: 'Nagliedje', 'Net altyd jy' and 'Dennebosse' (respectively, 'Little night song', 'Only always you' and 'Pine forest').Ī collection of the correspondence between N.P. van Wyk Louw is quoted on the Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl, Western Cape Province in his quote, he views Afrikaans as a bridge that connects Europe with Africa. van Wyk Louw produced among his most famous works his debut 1935 volume of poems, Alleenspraak ('Monologue'), the 1937 poetry collection Die halwe kring ('The Semicircle'), the verse epic Raka, and the 1956 tragedy Germanicus. One of the Dertigers, or 'Writers of the Thirties,' N.P. He was the older brother of Afrikaans-language poet W.E.G. van Wyk Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar. Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (11 June 1906 in Sutherland, Cape Colony – 18 June 1970 in Johannesburg), almost universally known as N.P. Master's Degree in German at the University of Cape Town, Honorary Degree from the University of Utrecht.

Johannesburg, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa

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