Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  Country of My Skull received the Alan Paton Award, the Olive Schreiner Prize, and a Booksellers' Choice Award. It also received an honourable mention in the 1999 Noma Awards for Publishing in Africa, and was named one of "Africa's 100 Best Books" of the twentieth century, by a panel of judges organised by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in collaboration with the African Publishers Network and the Pan-African Booksellers Association. In 2014, the Library and Information Association of South Africa selected Country of My Skull in its "Librarians' Choice" list of the twenty best South African books written in the twenty years since the first democratic elections. The book received generally, but not exclusively, favourable reviews, both in South Africa and abroad. Afrikaans writer 
Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It is based on Krog's experience as a radio reporter, covering the Commission from 1996 to 1998 for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The book explores the successes and failures of the Commission, the effects of the proceedings on her personally, and the possibility of genuine reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa. Country of My Skull blends poetry, prose, reporting, and verbatim testimony from the Commission &mdash; one critic calls it "a hybrid work, written at the edges of reportage, memoir, and metafiction." It was Krog's first work in English. She drafted it in Afrikaans and translated it for publication. It was edited by Ivan Vladislavic. It was published in the United States by Times Books in 1999, as Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa. In 2004, the book was adapted into the film In My Country, directed by John Boorman and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche.
Title: Country of My Skull
Content: Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction (1999) ; Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award (1999) ; Olive Schreiner Prize (2000) 
Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  the more severe suffering of black South Africans during Apartheid. The incorporation of passages written in the voices of others, especially witnesses at the TRC, has been read both as appropriation and as "the de-centering or remaking of the self." In Mosaic, Méira Cook noted that a "post-apartheid genre of 'memory writing'" was already entrenched &mdash; in "confessional" writings by Njabulo Ndebele, Alex Boraine, and Graham Pechy, among others &mdash; by the time that Country of My Skull was published. However, in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Carli Coetzee argues that Krog's book is set apart by her efforts "to speak about whiteness, but not simply to whites." The book, she said, seemed "emblematic of a new way of talking about whiteness."
Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  In a 2006 edition of the literary review New Contrast, poet Stephen Watson, then head of the English department at the University of Cape Town, alleged that parts of Country of My Skull had been plagiarised from a 1976 essay, "Myth and Education," by Ted Hughes. Krog strongly denied the allegation, saying that she had not been aware of the Hughes essay until after the book's publication. During the controversy that followed Watson's allegations, the Mail & Guardian published claims that Krog had also lifted, without attribution, parts of Isabel Hofmeyr's non-fiction book, We Spend Our Years as a Story That is Told: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom (1994). Responding to such accusations, Krog wrote:"Country of My Skull is my own, highly personalised version of experiences at the TRC. Country of My Skull is NOT a journalistic or factual report of the Truth Commission. In fact, the problem of truth, the ethical questions around the 'making' of truth, the use of other people's truths, the relation between power and truth, and other factors at play in the execution of truth, all form part of the text itself."
Title: Country of My Skull
Content: Graham, Shane. "The lie where the truth is closest: Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull". In South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss, 49-61. New York: Springer, 2009. ISBN 0230615376 ; Henry, Yazir. "The ethics and morality of witnessing: on the politics of Antjie Krog (Samuel’s) Country of My Skull". In Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays, ed. Edward Mengel & Michaela Borzaga, 107-142. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2012. ; Wallmach. Kim. "'Seizing the surge of language by its soft, bare skull': simultaneous interpreting, the Truth Commission and Country of My Skull". Current Writing 14(2):64-82, 2002. DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2002.9678125 
Title: Antjie Krog
Content:  She is best known for her book Country of My Skull (1998), which is based on her experiences reporting on the TRC. It contains elements of both memoir and documentary, and was later dramatised in a 2004 film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. A Change of Tongue (2003), Krog's second work of prose in English, reflects on the progress made – both in South Africa and in Krog's own life – since the first democratic elections in 1994. A post-modern blend of fiction, poetry, and reportage, it weaves strands of autobiography with the stories of others to document struggles for identity, truth and salvation. The title of the book has 
Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  language for what is happening." For example, as Krog watches Tutu plead personally with Winnie Mandela to testify truthfully, she has an intense emotional reaction: "Ah, the Commission! The deepest heart of my heart. Heart that can only come from this soil &mdash; brave &mdash; with its teeth firmly in the jugular of the only truth that matters. And that heart is black. I belong to that blinding black African heart. My throat floats up in tears &mdash; my pen falls to the floor, I blubber behind my hand, my glasses fog up &mdash; for one brief, shimmering moment this 
Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  Krog's personal suffering over the course of the book is supposed to appear "redemptive": when Krog finds unity with her countrymen (especially her non-white countrymen), it is because she suffers alongside them. In this regard, Krog's approach was controversial. Reviews discussed "the danger of appropriation" in respect of the stories of the victims of human rights abuses. Critics debated whether Krog's post-modern "textual and critical highjinks" &mdash; which serve to introduce an element of subjectivity into the book, and to blur the boundaries between Krog's dual roles as journalist and poet &mdash; are adequate to the gravity and historical importance of the subject matter, and whether they privilege Krog's narrative of personal redemption and personal suffering over the broader narrative of the TRC 
Title: Country of My Skull
Content:  this country is also truly mine."She writes of the Commission, "here the marginalised voice speaks to the public ear, the unspeakable is spoken &mdash; and translated &mdash; the personal story brought from the innermost depths of the individual binds us anew to the collective." However, she also criticises various aspects of the Commission, for example pointing out the inadequacy of the government's approach to reparations and the exploitation of the hearings for political purposes. Krog ultimately judges herself and other whites to have been complicit in Apartheid's crimes against humanity. Country of My Skull ends with a request in verse:

Question: Who is the author of Country of My Skull?
Answer: Antjie Krog.