WRITER

Ingrid Jonker

1933 - 1965

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Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) was a South African poet and one of the founders of modern Afrikaans literature. Her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Born into an Afrikaner family with four hundred year old roots in South Africa, Ingrid Jonker grew up in a broken home. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ingrid Jonker has received more than 334,055 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 19 in 2019). Ingrid Jonker is the 4,470th most popular writer (down from 4,406th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular South African Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ingrid Jonker
1975
Hicligin Tanecikleri
2017
Kantelson
1966
Versamelde werke
1975
Black Butterflies
Poetry (poetic works by one author), Criticism and interpretation, Translations into English
2008
Selected poems
Poetry, Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1968

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ingrid Jonker ranks 4,470 out of 7,302. Before her are Pelagonius, Robert Greene, Johann Beckmann, Igor Severyanin, Dicuil, and Deon Meyer. After her are Renia Spiegel, Choʻlpon, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Julia Quinn, Tracy Chevalier, and Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ingrid Jonker ranks 320. Before her are Arif Malikov, Abdul Rahman Munif, Lucian Pintilie, Yang Chuan-kwang, Lou Rawls, and Yoshishige Yoshida. After her are Sergio Pitol, Chuck Grassley, Arnold Koller, Giuliano Sarti, Muhamed Mujić, and Bobby Helms. Among people deceased in 1965, Ingrid Jonker ranks 140. Before her are František Langer, Henry Travers, Jeanette MacDonald, Louise Dresser, Frol Kozlov, and Ethel Thomson Larcombe. After her are Hamo Beknazarian, Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia, Frederick Browning, Lars Hanson, E. E. Smith, and Sonny Boy Williamson II.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Ingrid Jonker ranks 93 out of 454. Before her are Rudolph Lewis (1887), Basil van Rooyen (1939), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Gary Player (1935), Eben Dönges (1898), and Deon Meyer (1958). After her are Chris Hani (1942), Ted Moore (1914), Peter de Klerk (1935), Jan de Klerk (1903), Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), and Sid Atkinson (1901).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Ingrid Jonker ranks 11. Before her are André Brink (1935), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), and Deon Meyer (1958). After her are Alan Paton (1903), Andrew Murray (1828), Elsa Joubert (1922), Antjie Krog (1952), Athol Fugard (1932), and Karel Schoeman (1939).

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