Tom Dreyer (born 17 November 1972) is a South African novelist and poet writing in both English and Afrikaans.
[3] He made his writing debut in the poetry anthology Nuwe Stemme (Tafelberg Publishers, 1997) and a number of his poems were subsequently included in the anthology Afrikaanse Poësie in ‘n Duisend en Enkele Gedigte (1999), compiled by Gerrit Komrij.
[5] His last collection of stories, Kodachrome, was published in August 2022 and has garnered rave reviews.
[6][7][8] In 2023 his first collection of poems, "Nou in infrarooi" was published.
[10] Fanie Olivier called it "perhaps the most impressive debut of the past decade or two",[11] while Charl-Pierre Naude hailed it as "one of the most surprising and invigorating tours de force in the history of the Afrikaans poetry debut".