Lettie Viljoen
Lettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She lives in Jamestown, Stellenbosch.
Life & education
Winterbach was born in Johannesburg in 1948. She got her early education from Florida High School, Johannesburg and studied Afrikaans, Dutch and Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and went on to a postgraduate degree in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Stellenbosch under D.J. Opperman. She went on to work as a teacher, a journalist, a Fine Arts lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Natal. She has been a full-time writer and painter since 2002.
List of titles
As Lettie Viljoen
As Ingrid Winterbach
Lettie
Lettie is a London-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Biography
Lettie grew up in Suffolk, England.
She is a former Medieval History student obsessed with collecting pieces of the past in the forms of books, postcards, second hand shop finds and newspaper clippings.
Lettie met producer/writer David Baron in 2006 and has made three records with him, Age of Solo and Everyman (2008) and "Good Fortune, Bad Weather" (May 2012). The records were primarily recorded and produced at David’s home studio in Boiceville, NY. All three records have been independently released and are now being distributed by Proper Music Ltd.
In October 2009, Lettie performed a session at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios as part of 2009's Electric Proms. She performed Atmosphere, My Name Is, Red and Hang On, with Mike Mason on Alesis Ion and guitar. During the same month, Lettie embarked on her first European tour, supporting ex-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy. Lettie appears as a singer and co-writer on Counting Waves on Sarah Fimm's White Birds EP.
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