Diphete Bopape
{{Short description|South African novelist, playwright and journalist}}
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Heniel Diphete D. Bopape (born 1957) is a South African novelist, playwright and journalist.Phaswane Mpe, "Bopape, Heniel Diphete D.", in Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-415-23019-3}}. [http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/bopape-heniel-diphete-d-tf/ Online version]
Biography
Bopape was born in Transvaal Province, in what today is Limpopo. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Unisa in 1987. At the time he was lecturing full-time at Dr. C.N. Phatudi College.{{Cite web |url=https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/hu/node/21134 |title=Bopape, H. D. N. {{!}} Literatur im Kontext |access-date=21 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725011927/https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/hu/node/21134 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} He is the owner and editor of Seipone, a vernacular newspaper in Limpopo.[http://www.ul.ac.za/application/news_and_publications/Limpopo_Leader_1-1.pdf Limpopo Leader 1], August 2004
{{lang|nso|Lenong la Gauta}} (1982) pioneered the detective novel genre in Sepedi.Erika Terblanche, [https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/hu/node/21135 Poëtikale opvattings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725011947/https://lic.ned.univie.ac.at/hu/node/21135 |date=25 July 2011 }}, citing M. J. Mojalefa & N. I. Magapa (2007), "Mystery in Sepedi detective stories", Literator 28(1), April: 121-140.
Works
;Plays
- {{lang|nso|Makgale}}, Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1978 {{isbn|9780627009815}}
;Novels
- {{lang|nso|Lenong la Gauta}} [A Golden Vulture], Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1982
- {{lang|nso|Dikeledi}} [Tears], Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1985
- {{lang|nso|Rena Magomotša}}, Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1987
;Short story collections
- {{lang|nso|Bogobe bja Tswiitswii}} [Porridge of Tswiitswii], Pretoria: De Jager-HAUM, 1985 {{isbn|9780798615303}}
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Category:South African journalists
Category:South African dramatists and playwrights
Category:South African male novelists
Category:South African male dramatists and playwrights
Also Goitsemodimo Bopape
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