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About the author
Antjie Krog made her debut as an Afrikaans poet while still in high school. Since then, she has published 14 volumes of poetry, two of which are in English. She is best known for her account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Country of my Skull, which was published in 1988 by Random House SA. Down to My Last Skin, her first collection of poetry in English (published by Random House SA in 2000, as was A Change of Tongue, three years later) won the inaugural 2000 FNB Vita Poetry Award.
For her journalistic work Krog has received the Pringle Award as well as the Foreign Correspondent Award and was honoured by the Hiroshima Peace Foundation. She has also been the recipient of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award
She and her husband live in Cape Town where she is Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape and a director of the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation.
Antjie Krog’s published work includes
Poetry
• Dogter van Jefta (1970)
• Januarie-suite (1972)
• Beminde Antarktika (1974)
• Mannin (1974)
• Otters in Bronslaai (1981)
• Jerusalemgangers (1985)
• Lady Anne (1989)
• Gedigte 1989–1995 (1995)
• Kleur kom nooit alleen nie (2000)
• Down to my last skin (2000)
• Met woorde soos met kerse (2002)
• Body Bereft (2006)
• Verweerskrif (2006)
Poetry for children
• Mankepank en ander Monsters (1989)
• Voëls van anderster vere (1992)
• Fynbosfeetjies (2007)
• Fynbos Fairies (2007)
Translations
• Domein van Glas (from the Dutch Een mondvol Glas by Henk van Woerden)
• Lang Pad na Vryheid (from Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela)
• Mamma Medea (from the Flemish play Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye)
Drama
• Waarom is die wat voor Toyi-toyi altyd vet? (1999)
Non Fiction
• Country of my Skull (1998)
• A Change of Tongue (2003)
Omtrent die skrywer
Antjie Krog, een van die toonaangewendste Afrikaanse digters, het haar digdebuut gemaak terwyl sy nog op skool was. Sedertdien het sy veertien bundels gepubliseer, waaronder twee met kinderverse: Mankepank en ander monsters (1989) en Voëls van anderster vere (1992). Sy het ook ’n novelle, ’n drama en drie digbundels in Engels gepubliseer.
Haar internasionale reputasie berus egter op haar weergawe van die Waarheid- en Versoeningskommisse, Country of my Skull, en A Change of Tongue, wat handel oor transformasie in Suid-Afrika ná tien jaar van demokrasie, en wat ook in Afrikaans verskyn het as ’n Ander tongval.
Naas Engels is Antjie se werk in Arabies, Frans, Italiaans, Nederlands, Serbies, Spaans en Sweeds vertaal. Sy het reeds vier ere-doktorsgrade ontvang en is met talle literêre pryse en toekennings bekroon, onder meer met die Eugène Marais-prys (1973), Rapport-prys (1987), Hertzog-prys (1990), RAU-prys (2000) vir Kleur kom nooit alleen nie en die Suid-Afrikaanse Vertaalprys vir Met woorde soos met kerse.
Sy en haar man het vier kinders en drie kleindogters. Hulle woon in Kaapstad waar sy Buitengewone Professor aan die UWK is en ’n direkteur van die Instituut vir Geregtigheid en Versoening.
Titles published by Umuzi
Body Bereft
Verweerskrif
Fynbos Fairies
Fynbosfeetjies
Titles published by Random House SA
Country of My Skull
Down to My Last Skin
A Change of Tongue
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