Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog ( born October 23, 1952 in Kroonstad, South Africa and married Antjie Samuel ) is a South African writer, poet and journalist.

Life

Krog published his first poems in 1969 with 17 years in her school newspaper, and thus attracted the attention of the South African press, the slating the texts because of their stance against apartheid. Her first book of poems was published in the following year.

She received her bachelor's degree in Afrikaans, English and Philosophy at the University of the Orange Free State and her Masters in Afrikaans at the University of Pretoria. She also earned a diploma as a teacher at the University of South Africa.

After her studies she worked as a journalist and edited the independent magazine The Suid - Afrikaan. You wrote, among other things, nine volumes of poetry, two collections of poems for children and a collection of short stories.

Her best-known work is the award-winning semi -fictional non-fiction book Country of My Skull about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the aufarbeitete the crimes of the apartheid regime. It was filmed in 2004 by John Boorman starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson in the lead roles. The Commission's work accompanied them as a journalist and has lectured on this subject at universities in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Canada.

She writes in Afrikaans, her books are translated into English as well as in the previous six other European languages ​​. They even translated Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom and Henk van Woerdens Een mond vol glas into Afrikaans.

2006 expressed the South African writer and literature professor Stephen Watson plagiarism allegations and accused Krog to have copied the texts and translations of several other authors. Krog dismissed the allegations.

Krog is married to an architect, they have four children. She lives in Cape Town.

Works

Poetry

  • Dogter van Jephthah. Human and Rousseau, 1970.
  • Januarie suite. Human and Rousseau, 1972.
  • Mannin. Human and Rousseau, 1974.
  • Beminde Antarctica. Human and Rousseau, 1974.
  • Otter in Bronslaai. Human and Rousseau, 1981.
  • Jerusalemgangers. Human and Rousseau, 1985.
  • Lady Anne. Taurus, 1989.
  • Gedigte 1989-1995. Hond, 1995.
  • Kleur com nooit avenues never. Kwela, 2000.
  • Down to my last skin. Random House, 2000.
  • Met woorde soos met Kerse. Kwela, 2002.

Prose

  • Relaas van ' n Moord. Human and Rousseau, 1995.
  • Country of my Skull. Random House, 1998.

Awards

Documents

Pictures of Antjie Krog

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