Meyer, Deon
Entry updated 17 February 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1958- ) South African author who writes in Afrikaans, most of his works being nonfantastic thrillers, chiefly in the Benny Griessel sequence; active from the early 1990s. He is of sf interest for the Near Future Koors (2016; trans K L Seegers as Fever 2017), set in a South Africa almost entirely depopulated by a Pandemic. The father and son protagonists trek across a devoured landscape into uninhabited territory, a Zone at the heart of which they found a soon-to-be-beleaguered Utopian community. At the end, enough survives for a sort of future to be anticipated, though it is made clear that it will be no easy job to keep Homo sapiens from corrupting any home it founds. [JC]
Deon Meyer
born Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa: 4 July 1958
works (highly selected)
- Koors (Cape Town, South Africa: Human and Rousseau, 2016) [pb/]
- Fever (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2017) [trans by K L Seegers of the above: hb/]
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