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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 210,591 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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  • 16

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  • 2.30

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Notable Works

Die Dye Trek Die Dye Aan
1998
The Stars Say 'Tsau'
San (African people), Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
2004
Country of my skull
South Africa, Apartheid, South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
1998
A change of tongue
Social conditions, Group identity, Social change
2003
Country of My Skull
For more than two years Antjie Krog worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose in and around South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. From the legislative genesis of the Commission, through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, and the activities of apartheid's operatives, the appearance of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former President PW Botha's courthouse press conference, the Commission's meeting with the media in Robben Island early in 1998 - this award-winning poet leads us on an extraordinary odyssey. "Country of my skull" captures the complexity of the Truth Commission's work in a uniquely personal narrative which is harrowing, illuminating and provocative.
2002
Skinned
Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Lyrik
Krog selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career. Part One contains poems about writing, family, and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a long epic poem based on the life of Lady Anne Barnard from Scotland, who accompanied her husband to Cape Town and lived in the castle there from 1797 until 1802. They were written during the height of apartheid and Lady Anne is chosen as representative of the colonial vision. Part Three contains extracts from several speakers who lived in the land before the likes of Lady Anne arrived. Included here are interviews with inhabitants of the stone desert, three re-workings of Bushmen or Xam narratives, as well as a translation of an oral Xhosa praise poem. Part Four represents the political turmoil of South Africa and the divisions within Africa. The poems come from volumes that explored how blacks and whites identifying with the oppressed were removed from official history. The author has taken the liberty to change some of the previous translations and shift content in order to fit this new selection --
2013
Skinned
Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Lyrik
Krog selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career. Part One contains poems about writing, family, and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a long epic poem based on the life of Lady Anne Barnard from Scotland, who accompanied her husband to Cape Town and lived in the castle there from 1797 until 1802. They were written during the height of apartheid and Lady Anne is chosen as representative of the colonial vision. Part Three contains extracts from several speakers who lived in the land before the likes of Lady Anne arrived. Included here are interviews with inhabitants of the stone desert, three re-workings of Bushmen or Xam narratives, as well as a translation of an oral Xhosa praise poem. Part Four represents the political turmoil of South Africa and the divisions within Africa. The poems come from volumes that explored how blacks and whites identifying with the oppressed were removed from official history. The author has taken the liberty to change some of the previous translations and shift content in order to fit this new selection --
2013
Country of My Skull
For more than two years Antjie Krog worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose in and around South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. From the legislative genesis of the Commission, through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, and the activities of apartheid's operatives, the appearance of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former President PW Botha's courthouse press conference, the Commission's meeting with the media in Robben Island early in 1998 - this award-winning poet leads us on an extraordinary odyssey. "Country of my skull" captures the complexity of the Truth Commission's work in a uniquely personal narrative which is harrowing, illuminating and provocative.
2002
Country of my skull
South Africa, Apartheid, South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
1998
Die Dye Trek Die Dye Aan
1998
A change of tongue
Social conditions, Group identity, Social change
2003
The Stars Say 'Tsau'
San (African people), Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
2004

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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