Originally published by Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns in 2023 in their series of tributes to Hertzog Prize winners. A tribute to South African novelist, historian and translator Karel Schoeman (1939-2017), who wrote 19 collections of prose and some 46 works of non-fiction, biography, historical writing, autobiography and travel, mostly in Afrikaans. He was also the editor of 15 publications in the Vrystatia series.