(Podium, 1993, 159 pages)

The title of the book Moenie kyk nie means ‘don’t look at me’ in South African Dutch. It refers to the novel’s main theme, seeing, in every possible way: the central character is blind in one eye, he doesn’t want to be seen, his brother is not allowed to watch his girlfriend getting undressed, and he doesn’t want to be confronted with the ugly side of South African society, the Apartheid regime - and of course, the blindness of the regime itself.

(Podium, 1998, 224 pages)

After two novels set in South Africa – Moenie kyk nie and Tikoes – in A Mouth of Glass Henk van Woerden has written a book midway between an autobiographical travelogue and a biography. His obsession – as he himself calls it – with the murderer of South African premier Hendrik Verwoerd is central to the book.

(Podium, 2005, 300 pages)

Entirely unexpectedly, Ultramarijn, the novel that seemed to indicate a new direction in Henk van Woerden’s writing, became his swan song. A month after its publication the author died of a heart attack. With Henk van Woerden’s passing, the Netherlands lost a cosmopolitan writer of international stature.