[1] His published works include "West-falling Light" (1971), "Has Winter No Wisdom" (1979).
Cilliers was born in Cape Town, and grew up in Free State.
Cilliers lectured in telecommunications in the Post Office Training Centre in Pretoria until 1968 when he joined Parliament as a translator.
He retired as Chief Editor of the Hansard Reporting Unit until in 1999.
He has published in magazines such as Standpunte, Contrast, Ophir, Poet (India), Purple Renoster, New Nation (of which he was also poetry editor), De Arte, Chirimo (Rhodesia) and Unisa English Studies.