title: Menán Du Plessis
text: # Menán Du Plessis
  
  Menán Du Plessis (born 1952) is a South African novelist and linguist.
  
  Her debut novel A State of Fear won the 1985 Olive Schreiner Prize, and was a joint winner of the Sanlam Literary Prize in 1986.
  
  ## Works
  
  * A State of Fear. Cape Town: D. Philip, 1983. Republished by Pandora Press (1987).
  * Longlive! Cape Town: D. Philip, 1989. Translated into German by Susanne Köhler as Das Lied der Gemeinschaft Roman.
  * A unity hypothesis for the southern African Khoesan languages. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009.
  * Kora: a lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2018.
  