Maya Fowler is a writer and translator. She is the author of The Elephant in the
Room (shortlisted for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize) and the youth novels
As jy ’n ster sien verskiet and Om op eiers te dans (winner of a Maskew Miller
Longman award for youth literature). A children’s book of hers, Tortoise Finds
His Home, won Unicef ’s Best Author in Early Childhood Development Literature
Prize and was translated into Afrikaans. She grew up in Stellenbosch and Graaff-
Reinet, and holds a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of
Stellenbosch. She lives and works in Canada.
