Man Animal ThingAlfred Schaffer (trans. Michele Hutchison) Winner of the 2021 P. C. Hooft prize, the most important literary prize in The Netherlands for a whole oeuvre. Partly inspired by Chaka, a famous South African novel from 1931, written by Thomas Mofolo, the book charts the imaginary progress of the nineteenth century statesman and tyrant, Shaka Zulu (1787 1828). Structured around a series of daydreams and major events in Zulu's life, the poet extracts Zulu