Dricky Beukes
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1918
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Meetsnoere
- Die blomme bloeie weer
- Blinkwater
- Kamberg se mense
- Liefde van gister
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen
· 2004 · cited 1,174x
- Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago
· 2013 · cited 581x
- Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event
· 2014 · cited 566x
- EFFECTS OF FOUR DECADES OF FIRE MANIPULATION ON WOODY VEGETATION STRUCTURE IN SAVANNA
· 2007 · cited 403x
- Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences
· 2000 · cited 373x
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Quotes
- “"I can write at any time of the day or night. If someone knocks on the door, I can stop typing in the middle of a sentence. I can then sit and chat and when the gas is gone, just resume waar I quit. I don't have to wait for the inspiration or the mood."”
- “"Writing can't be done for leisure, but for me it's a joy of life and I love writing every day."”
- “"I am a Christian and deeply religious, and life is a lot of joy and beautiful things for me. I accept each day as he comes, and try to make the best of it. You don't know in advance what will come your way every day. I trust only in the Lord, because He is always with me and not my strength."”
- “"There's always such a buzz coming over me when I'm on a farm. A farm you have to live. But you can look at the city, you don't have to live it."”
- “"I'm just always writing, I think it's in my system. The time when I was busiest as a principal's wife with three children in the house, I wrote the most. I've wondered a lot how one quits. At a job you retire, but with writing?"”
- “"My favourite genre remains the short story, although it is the most difficult because one has to be able to say so much with so few words. Writing books is much more difficult than for the radio, but with the radio story you work at a pace again and you simply have to write every day."”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Prieska
- Place of death
- Bellville
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of death
- 1999-11-08
- date of birth
- 1918-12-29
- writing language
- Afrikaans
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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