Editing List of South Africans (section)

===Authors===
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*[[Lady Anne Barnard]], travel writer and artist (1750–1825)
*[[Herman Charles Bosman]], author (1905–1951)
*[[André Brink]], author (1935–2015)
*[[Justin Cartwright]], novelist (1943–2018)
*[[J. M. Coetzee]], 2003 [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Prize]]-winning author (born 1940)
*[[K. Sello Duiker]], novelist (1974–2005)
*[[James Percy FitzPatrick|Sir Percy FitzPatrick]], writer, businessman and politician (1862–1931)
*[[Graeme Friedman]], author and clinical psychologist
*[[Damon Galgut]], author (born 1963)
*[[Nadine Gordimer]], 1991 [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel Prize]]-winning author (1923–2014)
*[[Alfred Hutchinson]], South African author, teacher and activist (1924–1972)
*[[Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven|C. J. Langenhoven]], writer and poet (1873–1932)
*[[Pule Lechesa]], essayist, literary critic, and poet (born 1976)
*[[Kgotso Pieter David Maphalla]], the [[Sesotho language]] writer (1955–2021)
*[[Dalene Matthee]], author (1938–2005)
*[[Gcina Mhlope]], author, storyteller, playwright, director, actor (born 1959)
*[[Deon Meyer]], author (born 1958)
*[[Phaswane Mpe]], novelist (1970–2004)
*[[Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh]], author and musician (born 1989)
*[[Alan Paton]], author (1903–1988)
*[[Margaret Roberts (herbalist)|Margaret Roberts]], herbalist and writer (1937–2017)
*[[Karel Schoeman]], novelist and historian (1939–2017)
*[[Olive Schreiner]], author (1855–1920)
*[[Mongane Wally Serote]], poet and writer (born 8 May 1944)
*[[Wilbur Smith]], novelist (1933–2021)
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]], author of The Lord of The Rings (1892–1973)
*[[Etienne van Heerden]], novelist (born 1956)
*[[Marlene van Niekerk]], novelist (born 1954)
*[[Lyall Watson]], writer (1939–2008)
*[[David Yudelman]], writer
*[[Rachel Zadok]], London-based South African writer (born 1972)