Antjie Krog

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Antjie Krog, 2019

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

Life

Krog published her first poems in her school newspaper in 1969 at the age of 17 and thus caught the attention of the South African press, which panned the texts for their stance against apartheid . Her first volume of poetry was published the following year.

She received her BA in Afrikaans , English and Philosophy from the University of the Orange Freestate and her Masters in Afrikaans from the University of Pretoria . She also graduated as a teacher from the University of South Africa .

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

Her best-known work is the multi-award-winning, semi-fictional nonfiction book Country of My Skull about the South African Truth Commission , which dealt with the crimes of the apartheid regime. It was filmed in 2004 by John Boorman with Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson in the leading roles. She also accompanied the work of the commission as a journalist and gave lectures on this topic at universities in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Canada.

She writes in Afrikaans, her books are translated into English and so far six other European languages. She herself translated Nelson Mandela's autobiography Long Walk to Freedom and Henk van Woerden's Een mond vol glas into Afrikaans. Essays have been published in German translation in the cultural magazine Lettre International .

In 2006, the South African writer and literature professor Stephen Watson voiced allegations of plagiarism and accused Krog of having copied the texts and translations of several other authors. Krog denied the allegations.

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

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • Dogter van Jefta . Human and Rousseau, 1970.
  • Januaryie 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.
  • Awarded 1989–1995 . Hond, 1995.
  • Kleur never kom nooit alleen . Kwela, 2000.
  • Down to my last skin . Random House, 2000.
  • Met woorde soos met kerse . Kwela, 2002.
  • The Stars say tsau. 2004.
  • Body raked. 2006.
  • Skinned. 2013.
  • Body, deprived. Selected poems. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3957570062 .
  • Mede-Wete 2015.
  • Broze Aarde 2020.

prose

  • Relaas van 'n Moord . Human and Rousseau, 1995.
  • Country of my Skull . Random House, 1998.
  • A change of tongue. 2003.
  • There was this goat. 2009.
  • Begging to be Black. 2010.
  • Hoe everything changed here (from: Country of my Skull , A Change of Tongue , Begging to be Black with a new foreword). 2018.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antjie Krog beschuldigd van plagiaat , February 22, 2006 Volkskrant.nl
  2. ↑ South African author accused of plagiarism , The Guardian , February 21 of 2006.
  3. ↑ Biography of Antjie Krog ( memento from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Krog, Antjie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samuel, Antjie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African author, poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kroonstad , South Africa