A black-and-white picture of Lynthia Julius on a wicker chair by a window in a dark wall. Een zwart-witfoto van Lynthia Julius op een rieten stoel bij een raam in een donkere muur.

Lynthia Julius (ZAF)

Back to poets
Back to poets

Lynthia Julius (ZAF)

Lynthia Julius (1993, ZAF) is one of the most promising young voices in contemporary South African poetry. She grew up in the diamond town of Kimberley and writes in the Gariep Afrikaans of the Northern Cape, in constant dialogue with the Standard Afrikaans of the canon. Trained first in philosophy and later in Creative Writing, she is a poet whose work combines precision and layering with raw, uncompromising honesty. Julius refuses to be boxed in and writes with razor-sharp honesty about identity, power and motherhood.​

How you might know this poet

  • Winner of the South African Literary Award (2020) for Uit die kroes.​
  • Recipient of the Jan Rabie–Marjorie Wallace Writers’ Bursary (2024), which enabled her to further deepen her work in Gariep Afrikaans.​
  • Expands the boundaries of what is considered part of the Afrikaans canon.​
A black-and-white picture of Lynthia Julius on a wicker chair by a window in a dark wall. Een zwart-witfoto van Lynthia Julius op een rieten stoel bij een raam in een donkere muur.
© Carolyn Meads

Programs