Circles in a Forest (novel)

Circles in a Forest is a novel by Dalene Matthee, originally written and published in Afrikaans as Kringe in 'n Bos in 1984. It is the first book in her series of four "forest novels", set in the Knysna forest. The other three "forest novels" are Fiela se Kind (Fiela’s Child) published in 1985, Moerbeibos (The Mulberry Forest) published in 1987 and Toorbos (Dreamforest, later translated as Karoelina’s Forest) published in 2003. Circles in a Forest became a best-seller and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Icelandic, Spanish, Hebrew, German, Swedish, Italian, Finnish and Norwegian.[1] The novel is a coming-of-age story about an Afrikaans woodcutter named Saul Barnard, set in and around the South African town of Knysna in the nineteenth century, focusing on the impact of a gold rush on the Outeniqua forest, its Afrikaans and Khoekhoe residents and the Knysna elephants.[2][3][4][5][6]

Circles in a Forest
AuthorDalene Matthee
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageAfrikaans
Publication date
1984
Pages305
ISBN9780394539119
Followed byFiela's Child 

Film

The story was made into an English film Circles in a Forest in 1989.[7]

References

  1. "Kringe in 'n Bos". www.seiklo.co.za. Seiklo Publishers. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  2. "Walking in words - South Magazine". 1 September 2016.
  3. "Dalene Matthee's Forest Novels". Visitknysna.co.za. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  4. "The Knysna elephants - Knysna Museums". www.knysnamuseums.co.za.
  5. "Wild Shores and Forest Giants". ShowMe™ - South Africa.
  6. "SA writers mourn Dalene Matthee".
  7. "Circles in the Forest (1989)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2018.


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