Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee (née Scott) is a South African novelist born on October 13, 1938 in Riversdale, Western Cape. As a child, she was always an avid reader, foretelling her future career as a successful author. After graduating from Langenhoven High School, she pursued music at a local conservatory and wrote prose during her free time. When she was 18, she married Larius Matthee, a bank clerk, with whom she had three daughters. Initially she wrote children's stories for a local radio program as a...
