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Linda Rode

Lind Rode
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Author, translator and compiler of children's books

Linda Rode was born on 3 July 1937 at Ladismith, Western Cape.
She matriculated at the Hoërskool Langenhoven in Riversdal in 1954 and
studied at Stellenbosch University, where she obtained an Honours degree in German and a Teacher's Diploma (1963).
She taught school in Calvinia, in Hermannsburg, at the Pionierskool in Worcester (school for the blind) and at Herzlia in Cape Town and works as a free-lance translator for publishers.
Linda is married to Erwin Rode. They live in Bellville and have two children.
Hobbies: Hiking and mountaineering

Awards:

1989: MER Prize for Goue fluit, my storie is uit and Tienie Holloway - medal
 Goue Lint, My Storie Begint: Voorleesverhale En Verse Vir KleintjiesGoue Lint, My Storie Begint: Voorleesverhale En Verse Vir Kleintjies
Via Afrika Literary Award 2010 and the MER-prys for illustrated children's books for In Die Nimmer-Immer-Bos / In the Never-ever Wood


Books:

In Die Nimmer-Immer-Bos
In Die Nimmer-Immer-Bos
/ In the Never-ever Wood
Illustrator: Fiona Moodie
Tafelberg Publishers, 2009
 Crossing Over - New Writing for a New South Africa: New Writing for a New South Africa
Crossing Over - New Writing for a New South Africa

Compiler: Linda Rode; Jakes Gerwel
Kwela Books, 1998
 Another kind of one nation: Volume 1 Another Kind of One Nation
Another kind of one nation: Volume 1 Another Kind of One Nation

Compiler: Hans Bodenstein; Linda Rode
 In the Rapids: New South African Stories
In the Rapids: New South African Stories

Compiler: Linda Rode; Jakes Gerwel

'n Glimlag kan groei
'n Wors het twee enteCompilations: of children's poems and stories:
Stories vir die Vaak
Tick Tock Story Clock
Goue lint, my storie begint, Goue fluit, my storie is uit
Sonroepertjies
Vrede op aarde
Stories suid van die son
amaBali matshona kwelanga - stories South of the sun

Co-compiler of:
Keerpunt (Crossing Over), Another Kind of One Nation, Ek, 'n lewende pyl (I, a living arrow).
Stroomversnelling (with Jakes Gerwel)
Amabali MaTshona KweLanga: Level 2: Udade Wethu Omncinci: (Grade 2)
(with UCT School of Education)
Dipale tsa ka borwa ho letsatsi: (Stories South of the Sun: South-Sotho)
Compiler: Christel Bodenstein; Hans Bodenstein;Linda Rode

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Photo: Linda Rode at the 2009 NB Publishers / NB Uitgewers trade presentation. BOOKphotoSA
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