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Karel Schoeman

Karel Schoeman (pronounced Skeuman) was born in 1939 in Trompsburg, in the Orange Free State, South Africa. After schooling in Paarl in the Cape Province, he studied linguistics at the University of Bloemfontein and then converted to Catholicism, entered the seminary in Pretoria. After three years of novitiate in the Franciscan monasteries in Ireland, where he learned Gaelic, he finally renounced his vows and returned to South Africa, obtained a higher diploma in librarianship.

This job will take him first to the Netherlands for five years, then back to Bloemfontein, and finally to Cape Town, where he remained until his retirement in 1999. Alongside this activity, Karel Schoeman is dedicated to writing and published a dozen novels written in Afrikaans. In France, they are gradually released belatedly in Phoebus. It is also the author of short stories, historical works, biographies and translations of various texts in Afrikaans Gaelic, German, Russian, Dutch and English.

solidarity of the struggle of blacks against apartheid, Karel Schoeman received in 1999 from the hands of Nelson Mandela, the Order of Merit, the highest award in South Africa. Today, the writer lives in retirement in a remote village in the veld. These novels, still little known in France despite the Best Foreign Book awarded in 2009 to This life, tell a disillusioned South Africa and loneliness own the human condition.

Read (in French): In
strange land, Robert Laffont, 1991
Season of farewells , Phoebus, 2004
Back to the beloved country , Phoebus, 2006
This life , Phoebus, 2009

Sources: Street books, Phoebus, Wikipedia

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Already one year, "Black Ink" takes stock

With some delay, I see that the time has come for me to celebrate the first anniversary of this blog, and I want to make a small assessment ... Statistics. Regarding a more personal record, I must say it is not easy to stick to a sustained pace of publication, and in recent weeks, I admit to being somewhat stalled ...

Since April 7, 2009, "black ink" had a 18.4 average attendance of unique visitors per day. What is not huge ... But it should be noted that the number of visitors increased gradually as the blog is enriched with new items so that out of the last six months, the average of 24.5 unique visitors per day. However, attendance is also dependent on the frequency of publication, so that since January, the number of visitors has stagnated somewhat ...

These visitors came from 110 countries worldwide , Uruguay in Iran ... In the top 10 below, there are no surprises the main French-speaking countries plus the United States. Note that five of them are African countries (in red).

1. France
2. Canada
3. U.S.
4. Senegal
5. Belgium
6. Benin
7. Burkina Faso
8. Switzerland
9. Morocco
10. Cote d'Ivoire

To complement these geographical indications on the origin of visitors, here is the Top 10 cities:

1. Paris
2. Dakar
3. Lyon
4. Cotonou
5. Toulouse
6. Abidjan
7. Ouagadougou
8. Nantes
9. Rennes

10. Bordeaux

It is also interesting to see what reviews of books most viewed. In the top 5 below, we notice two things:

1) The classic of African literature, studied in many African countries are particularly in demand - for students? This is the case Tips Wood God and The Dark Child.

2) The only two tests which have been discussed on this blog, The Status of Black Accomplices and the unspeakable , are placed second and third positions. Hence suggesting that the reading test is too laborious to not simply read a summary on the internet, there is not that I prefer not to cross ...




Top 5 books:
1. 's Bits of Wood God , Ousmane Sembene
2. Condition Black , Pap Ndiaye
3. Accomplices the unspeakable , Patrick de Saint-Exupery
4. L'Enfant Noir , Camara Laye
5. Black Bazar, Alain Mabanckou

Top 5 authors:
1. Sembene Ousmane (Senegal)
2. Amadou Ba Hampâté (Mali)
3. Abdourahman Waberi (Djibouti)
4. Moussa Konate (Mali)
5. Andre Brink (South Africa)

NB: Of course, this "ranking" is somewhat skewed by the length of articles, publications and most recent of which was a priori less consulted than those that precede them.