Barrie Hough
Barrie Michael Hough (17 January 1953 – 2004) was a South African writer who wrote children's stories. He wrote in Afrikaans, and almost all of his works have been translated into English. He was joint winner of the Alba Bouwer Prize in 1990 for his work "Droomwa". He also won the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature for "Droomwa" in 1990 and the CP Hoogenhout Award that same year. Death. Hough suffered from depression and committed suicide in 2004 at the age of 51.