Cornelia Hilda Kühn (born 11 December 1944) is an Afrikaans writer known under the pen-name Corlia Fourie. She won the ATKV-prize for the short story anthology Liefde en geweld and the MER prize for Die towersak en ander stories. In 1995, she received the Alba Bouwer Prize.

Biography

She is the daughter of the writer Mikro (C H Kühn). She writes drama, children's books, short stories and novels. Her drama Moeders en dogters was adapted for television and radio and also presented by Kruik.

Corlia Fourie

Books

Marianne en die leeu in die pophuis, 1982

Moeders en dogters, 1985/92

Leuens, 1986

En die son skyn in Suid-Afrika, 1986

Die volstruisie wat graag wou vlieg, 1986

Die meisie wat soos 'n bottervoël sing

Tintinyane, the girl who sang like a magic bird, 1990

Jakkalsstreke, 1991

Liefde en geweld (kortstories), Tafelberg, 1992

Ganekwane en die groen draak, 1992

Vrou-mens, Verhale deur vroue oor vroue (kompilasie), 1993

Die deurmekaardier, 1993

Sê (kortstories), 1994

Die towersak, 1995

Die oop deur, 1996

Nolito en die wonderwater, 1997

Die wit vlinder, Tafelberg, 1993

Want die lewe is goed – keur uit die werk van Mikro, Lapa, 2003

Ware liefde: bekende Suid-Afrikaanse paartjiesWare liefde: bekende Suid-Afrikaanse paartjies, Human & Rousseau, 2008 Heleen en die heks met die hoofpyn, Protea Boekhuis, 2008 Alle paaie lei deur die strand, LAPA 2008 Die geheime kamer, LAPA 2012 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, Tafelberg, 1998 3am Thoughts, a collection of poems, short stories and smut, Penguin Books, 2021

Corlia Fourie

References

1944 births

Living people

Afrikaans-language writers

South African children's writers

South African women children's writers

20th-century South African women writers

21st-century South African women writers

Corlia Fourie