Anna de Villiers

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| name = Anna de Villiers

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| birth_name = Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|12|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Stellenbosch, Cape Colony

| death_date = {{Death date|1975|11|1|df=yes}}

| death_place = Stellenbosch, South Africa

| occupation = Writer, lexicographer, and educator

| nationality = South African

| alma_mater = University of Stellenbosch
(B.A., M.A.)

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Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers (24 December 1900 – 1 November 1979) was an Afrikaans South African writer, lexicographer, and educator from South Africa.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rl8nkyID3WsC&dq=%22anna+johanna+dorothea+de+villiers%22&pg=PA61|title=New Dictionary of South African Biography|last=Verwey|first=E. J.|date=1995|publisher=HSRC Press|isbn=9780796916488|location=Pretoria, South Africa|pages=59–61|language=en|chapter=De Villiers, Anna Johanna Dorothea}} She is best known for her contributions to Die Afrikaanse woordeboek and Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal. After receiving her doctorate, she taught at the Technical College in Pretoria.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/dvilla.html|title=Anna J. D. de Villiers|last=Breuer|first=Rosemarie|website=www.stellenboschwriters.com|access-date=24 October 2017}}

Additionally, Villiers published a number of novels including:

• Sterker as die noodlot (1930)
• Die wit kraai (1938)
• Hercule de Pres (1947)
• Purper daeraad (1958)
• Die Storm Trek verby (1958)

She received an honorary doctorate from the University of London in 1948.