Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal is a writer, translator, musician and educator. His debut poetry collection, asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (Tafelberg), won the 2019 Ingrid Jonker Prize. In 2024, his second collection, Ontaard, received the Eugène Marais Prize and the NIHSS Award for Poetry, while his play Droomwerk (Protea) was nominated for the Hertzog Prize for Drama. Odendaal was named one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans and his debut spoken word album Ontaard was released in 2025. His debut English poetry collection, a corpse is also a garden, is due in 2025.
