Abraham Hermanus de Vries (9 February 1937 – 23 August 2024) was an Afrikaans short story writer, considered one of the most respected and beloved in Afrikaans language literature in the Sestigers.
De Vries was born in Ladismith in the then Cape Province in 1937.
[1] He studied at Stellenbosch University and the Gemeentelijke Universiteit van Amsterdam, and obtained doctorates from both universities.
From 1963 to 1965 he was the art editor for Die Vaderland, a Johannesburg newspaper.
He regularly toured overseas and also lectured at different European universities.