A tribute to Afrikaans writer Anna M Louw (1913-2003), awarded the 1964 Olive Schreiner Prize for prose for Twenty days that autumn; the 1968 Scheepers Prize for Youth literature for Die voortreflike familie Smit, the 1971 WA Hofmeyr Prize for Die groot gryse, and the Hertzog Prize for prose 1976, WA Hofmeyer Prize 1977 and CNA Prize 1977 for Kroniek van Perdepoort. She served as a censor in the mid-1970s. Although she resigned over the banning of Etienne Leroux's novel Magersfontein, o Magersfontein, she returned