Jaco Jacobs is Famous children’s book author from South Africa . He is a prolific writer who writes in Afrikaans. He is the most well-known Afrikaans-language children’s book author in the world. More than a million copies of Jaco Jacobs’ children’s books have sold worldwide. He has authored over 170 of them.
Jaco Jacobs Bio, Wiki and Facts
| Name | Jaco Jacobs |
| Profession | Writer, Auther |
| Birth Place | Carnarvon, Northern Cape, South Africa |
| Date of Birth | February 22, 1980 |
| Age | 43 year old |
| Material status | Married |
| Wife Name | Elize Jacobs |
| Children | 2 |
| Nationality | South African |
| Father Name | Not Known |
| Mother Name | Unknown |
| Height | 5 Feet 11 inch |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Brown |
| Net Worth | $2 Million |
What is the Net worth of Jaco Jacobs?
Jaco Jacobs vast knowledge of children’s literature has brought him great wealth. His estimated net worth as of 2024 is $2 million.
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Childhood and Education
On February 22, 1980, Jacobs was born in the largest province of South Africa, the Northern Cape, in Carnarvon. In 2023, he will be 43 years old. The author was raised in a remote community in the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa. He first fell in love with books while he was young and exposed to them. At the age of seven, he started to show off his writing abilities while he was in school. He has entered and taken part in multiple writer competitions. Pretpark also the first children’s book written by the renowned author while he still a high school student. His grandmother taught them nursery rhymes, and his grandfather loved to tell stories. Jaco is a communication science B.A. holder. In Afrikaans and Dutch literature, he received honors from the University of the Free State.
Professional life and Career
The majority of Jaco Jacobs’ books also written and released in Afrikaans. “A Good Day for Climbing Trees,” one of his best-known books, also the first to be widely published; it published in the UK by Oneworld Publications. In 2018, he released a book called “A Good Night for Shooting Zombies.” A Good Night for Shooting Zombies, one of his books, also made into a movie and released in South Africa. A Good Day for Climbing Trees was also available in Italian. Both A Good Day for Climbing Trees and A Good Day for Shooting Zombies were nominated for the Carnegie Medal. One of his young adult books, Suurlemoen!, also selected in 2007 as an International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) selection.
Additionally, Jaco Jacobs has translated more than 250 works from Dutch and English into Afrikaans. He translated a book by Chris Riddell called Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Willemien en die Geel Kat), which won both the SATI Prize and the Elsabe Steenberg Prize for children’s book translation.
Who is the Jacobs’s Wife ?
Happily, Jaco Jacobs gets wed to Elize Jacobs, who goes by Elize alone. The two couples, Mia and Emma Jacobs, are the proud parents of two stunning daughters. Anything that involves climbing and heights terrifies him because he is afraid of heights.
