Light and Shadow in Namibia

Born in 1962, Anna Mandus lived in the USA and Asia before she settled in Germany for some years. She founded a company and started to write, but it was not long before the travel bug bit again, and she set out to discover a new continent. In the South Western corner of Africa she met a man, a real Namibian-German, a Südwester, who made her the second mother of two teenagers. In Namibia she learned among other things, the art of decorating thorny acacia Christmas trees and the science of correctly reading a rain metre.

Sylvia Schlettwein, born 1975 in Omaruru, grew up in Stellenbosch, Katima Mulilo and Windhoek and studied German and French Language and Literature in Cape Town, Stuttgart and Lyon. She currently lives in Windhoek, where she writes, edits and translates fiction and poetry in, from and to German, English and Afrikaans.