Elisabeth Eybers

Elisabeth Françoise Eybers (26 February 1915 – 1 December 2007) was a South African poet.

After completing her high school studies there at the age of 16, she enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for a Bachelor of Arts degree, which she achieved cum laude.

Counted among the so-called Dertigers, she became the first Afrikaans woman to win the Hertzog Prize for poetry in 1943.

[citation needed] Eybers' first collection of poems, Belydenis in die Skemering ("Confession at twilight"), was published in 1936.

Among the settings of her poetry by South African composers are "Die Vreemde Dae" by Cromwell Everson and two song cycles by Hendrik Hofmeyr, "Drie gedigte van Elisabeth Eybers" (1984) and "DIe stil avontuur" (2003) http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/hofmeyrh.htm Dutch composer Bertha Tideman-Wijers used Eybers' text for her composition Three Songs on a South African text.