* Herman Charles Bosman’s collection of short stories, Mafeking Road, has never been out of print since it was first published in 1947.
*He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Herman Malan, which was his mother’s maiden name.
*He wrote a number of Afrikaans short stories and poems that were published in numerous Afrikaans magazines. In 2001 a collection of his Afrikaans short stories with the title Verborge skatte was published.
*He is especially renowned for his “Oom Schalk Lourens” and “Voorkamer” stories. The actor Patrick Mynhardt won acclaim for his interpretation of Oom Schalk Lourens. He died in 2007 and was buried next to Herman Charles Bosman in the Westpark cemetary in Johannesburg.
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