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Jan F. E. (Jan François Elias) Celliers
1865–1940
A leading early voice in Afrikaans literature, this South African poet wrote with feeling about the land, his people, and the upheaval of war. His work helped shape Afrikaans writing in the years after the South African War.
2 Audiobooks
Digters uit Suid-Afrika Bloemlesing uit die poësie van die Twede Afrikaanse-Taalbeweging
by Jan F. E. (Jan François Elias) Celliers, C. Louis (Christiaan Louis) Leipoldt, Daniel François Malherbe, Totius
Martjie
by Jan F. E. (Jan François Elias) Celliers
About the author
Born on 12 January 1865 near Wellington in the Cape Colony, he later grew up in Pretoria after his family moved to the Transvaal. Jan F. E. Celliers became known as a poet, essayist, dramatist, and reviewer writing in Afrikaans.
He is widely remembered as one of the major Afrikaans poets of the period following the Second Boer War, alongside Totius and C. Louis Leipoldt. Reference works describe him especially as a pastoral poet, and his writing often reflects the South African landscape, human suffering, and the struggle for freedom felt by his community.
Celliers died on 1 June 1940 in Johannesburg. Today he is remembered as an important early figure in Afrikaans literature, with a lasting place in the development of the language’s poetic tradition.