A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Nicholaas Petrus VanWyk Louw, one of South Africa's best known Afrikaans poets, died on Wednesday night. He was 64. Apart from his own work he was known for his studies on Afrikaans of such contemporary poets as T. S. Eliot. In 1943 Louw was awarded the Hertzog prize for Literature by the South African Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holland's University of Utrecht awrded him an honorary degree of a doctor in literature in 1948. Louw was the founder in 1930 of STANDPUNTE, the South African literary review. Louw was for many years lecturer in education at the University of Cape Town and later was appointed to the Chair of Afrikaans and Nederlands at the University of the Witwatersrand.