ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CARIÉ Maas works in the financial services industry but started her career in journalism, mostly on the production side of financial publications. She wrote the Jannie Mouton biography, And Then They Fired Me, also published in Afrikaans as En toe fire hulle my, and From Corner Café to JSE Giant: The Famous Brands

Story. Her novel Koljander won the debut section of the Great Afrikaans Novel Competition in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Jan Rabie Rapport Prize. Her second novel, Die miskruier en die maan, was shortlisted for the Eugène Marais prize in 2022.