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Antjie Krog

1952 - Today

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Antjie Krog (born 1952) is a South African writer and academic, best known for her Afrikaans poetry, her reporting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and her 1998 book Country of My Skull. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antjie Krog has received more than 211,867 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Antjie Krog is the 6,100th most popular writer (down from 5,694th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 171st in 2019) and the 15th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 43.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antjie Krog ranks 6,100 out of 7,302. Before her are Jakob Jakobsen, Sigitas Geda, John Betjeman, Eva Crane, Pavel Antokolsky, and George Grove. After her are María Dueñas, Julio Llamazares, Brad Falchuk, Eeva-Liisa Manner, Lydia Maria Child, and Dorothy Allison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Antjie Krog ranks 544. Before her are René Simões, Pier Paolo Bianchi, Lee Strobel, Akejan Kajegeldin, June Anderson, and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. After her are Robert Zubrin, Susan Dey, Willy Puchner, Mohamed Said Fofana, Albert Camille Vital, and Youssouf Saleh Abbas.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Antjie Krog ranks 173 out of 454. Before her are Lillian Board (1948), David Carstens (1914), Ahmed Kathrada (1929), Dimas (1969), Jackie Pretorius (1934), and Robert Sobukwe (1924). After her are Richard Borcherds (1959), Francois Botha (1968), Ilana Kloss (1956), George Hunter (1927), Constand Viljoen (1933), and Zindzi Mandela (1960).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Antjie Krog ranks 15. Before her are Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Alan Paton (1903), Andrew Murray (1828), and Elsa Joubert (1922). After her are Athol Fugard (1932), Karel Schoeman (1939), Damon Galgut (1963), Bessie Head (1937), John Langalibalele Dube (1871), and Fatima Meer (1928).

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