Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog (dem born am 1952) be South African writer den academic, she be known for ein Afrikaans poetry, ein reporting for de Truth den Reconciliation Commission, den ein 1998 book Country of My Skull. Insyd 2004, she join de Arts faculty of de University of de Western Cape as Extraordinary Professor.

 Ein Early life den education 
Dem born Krog insyd 1952 wey dem born am for Afrikaner family of writers, wey na she be de daughter of Afrikaans writer Dot Serfontein. She grow up sam farm wey dey insyd Kroonstad, Orange Free State.

Na ein literary career start insyd 1970 for John Vorster ein apartheid years tym insyd, she rep sam anti-apartheid poem wey ein title be "My mooi land" ("My beautiful country") give ein school magazine. De poem opened with the line, "Kyk, ek bou vir my 'n land / waar 'n vel niks tel nie" ("I'm building myself a country where skin colour doesn't matter"). E cause stir insyd ein conservative Afrikaans-speaking community wey dem report for de national media. Krog publish ein first volume of poetry, Dogter van Jefta ("Daughter of Jephta"), as na she be just seventeen. Ronnie Kasrilslater translate den publish "My mooi land"  insyd January 1971 issue of Secheba, de official publication of de African National Congress (ANC) insyd London. ANC stalwart Ahmed Kathrada read de poem aloud after ein release from Robben Island.

 Ein Career 

 1980s: Poet den activist 
Insyd de 1980s den early 1990s, as na she live plus ein husband den young kiddies insyd Kroonstad, Krog teach for sam black high school den teachers' college. Insyd Kroonstad, na she be politically active – wey na she dey attend ANC meetings den protests – wey she sana involve ein body plus Congress of South African Writers, wey dem form insyd 1987. Dem invite am say make she cam read poem for "Free Mandela" rally insyd de township of Maokeng. Ein anti-Apartheid activities for dat period insyd, den de hostility wey dem evoke among conservative white locals, be de topic of ein first work of prose, Relaas van 'n moord (1995; "Account of a Murder").

 1990s: Journalist at de TRC 
Insyd 1993, Krog cam turn editor of now-defunct Afrikaans current-affairs journal, Die Suid-Afrikaan ("De South African").

From 1995 go 2000, na she be radio journalist for South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). She lead de radio team wey cover de Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from 1996 go 1998, wey ein report for dat period insyd cam turn de basis of ein second prose work, Country of My Skull (1998). Krog report under ein married name, Antjie Samuel.

 2000s–present: author, academic, den public intellectual 
Insyd de past two decades, Krog publish three volumes of new poetry, four prose books den book of essays, den several translations, wey dey include two from indigenous African languages. Krog sana translate Nelson Mandela ein biography, Long Walk to Freedom, go Afrikaans insyd. She regularly dey translate from Dutch go Afrikaans insyd as writing exercise.

 Ein Personal life 
Krog marry architect John Samuel. She get four kiddies – Andries, Susan, Philip, den Willem – den 11 grandkiddies.

 Ein Poetry 
Krog publish ein first book of verse, Dogter van Jefta ("Daughter of Jephta"), insyd 1970. Since then she publish chao further volumes. Ein poetry often be autobiographical, wey dey involve reflections on love den de responsibilities of artists, wey since de 1980s e often dey deal plus racial den gender politics. Krog talk say na ein sixth collection, Jerusalemgangers (1985), be de first wey get "complete political foundation." She mostly dey rep insyd free-verses.

Dem critically dey acclaim Krog ein poetry insyd South Africa. She win three Hertzog Prizes den chao other national awards. Dem translate ein poetry go English, Dutch, French, den chaw other languages. Dem first publish am for English insyd Down to My Last Skin (2000).Her theme is a large one: historical experience in the South Africa of her lifetime. Her capacities as a poet have grown in response to the challenge, refusing to be dwarfed. Utter sincerity backed with an acute, feminine intelligence, and a body of heart-rending experience to draw upon... No one in Australia writes at a comparable white heat. The phenomenon of Antjie Krog strikes me as quite Russian. In South Africa, as in Russia, life may be wretched; but how the brave spirit leaps to respond!

 Prose den non-fiction 
There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009) be work of academic non-fiction, wey she rep plus Nosisi Mpolweni den Kopano Ratele. De book dey follow de authors ein attempts say she go make sense of de experience of sam single woman, wey ein TRC testimony about de death of ein son, insyd Xhosa, sound strange den incomprehensible give menners wey dey listen de English interpretation.

Ebe de writing of J.M. Coetzee den Njabulo Ndebele wey dey  influence Krog ein prose, as well as various translated works from indigenous African languages, wey togeda "save [ein] life":De African writings give me access to world-conception wey I live plus all my life, but na ano really be aware of (ein radical profoundness, depth den beauty), wey Coetzee give me de tools wey ago take do meaningful dissections from am.

 Play den theatre adaptations 
Dem stage Krog ein Afrikaans translation of Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye for South Africa insyd 2002, under Basson ein direction. Saartjie Botha adapt den stage 'n Ander tongval, de Afrikaans translation of ein book A Change of Tongue, for theatre insyd 2008 under de direction of Jaco Bouwer.

 Ein Works 

 Ein Poetry 

 Dogter van Jefta (1970)
 Januarie-suite (1972)
 Beminde Antarktika (1974)
 Mannin (1974)
 Otters in Bronslaai (1981)
 Jerusalemgangers (1985)
 Lady Anne (1989; English translation: Lady Anne: A Chronicle insyd Verse, 2017)
 Gedigte 1989–1995 (1995)
 Kleur kom nooit alleen nie (2000)
 Verweerskrif (2005; English translation: Body Bereft, 2006)
 Mede-wete (2014; English translation: Synapse, 2014)
 Plunder (2022); English translation: Pillage, 2022)

Ein Collected poems

 Eerste gedigte (2004)
 Digter wordende: 'n keur (2009), compiled by Krog
 'n Vry vrou (2020), compiled by Karen de Wet

Ein Selected poems insyd English translation

 Down to My Last Skin (2000)
 Skinned (2013)

Ein Poetry give kiddies

 Mankepank en ander monsters (1989)
 Voëls van anderste vere (1992)
 Fynbosfeetjies (2007; English translation: Fynbos Fairies), with Fiona Moodie

 Ein Poetry anthologies 

 Die trek die dye aan (1998), sam collection of erotic Afrikaans poetry, she edit am plus Johann de Lange
 Met woorde soos met kerse (2002), selection of poetry insyd indigenous South African languages, dem arrange den translate go Afrikaans by Krog
 Die sterre sê 'tsau (2004), selection of 35 San poems, dem arrange den translate go Afrikaans by Krog

 Ein Prose den non-fiction 

 Relaas van 'n moord (1995; English translation: Account of a Murder, 1997)
 Country of my Skull (1998)
 A Change of Tongue (2003)
 Begging to be Black (2009)
 There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), with Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele
 Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2013)

 Ein Theatre 

 Waarom is dié wat voor toyi-toyi altyd so vet? (1999)

 Ein Translations 

 Lang pad na vryheid (2000), from de English Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
 Domein van glas (2002), from the Dutch history Een Mond vol Glas by Henk van Woerden
 Mamma Medea (2002), from the Dutch/Flemish play Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye
 Black Butterflies: Selected Poems (2007), with André Brink, from the Afrikaans poetry of Ingrid Jonker
 Die Maanling (2021), from the English children's book The Moonling (2018) by Tjaart Lehmacher and Paula Oelofsen

 Ein Awards Ein Poetry Eugene Marais Prize (1973), for Januarie-suite
 Reina Prinsen Geerligs Prize (1976)
 Rapport Prize (1987), for Jerusalemgangers
 Hertzog Prize (1990), for Lady Anne
 FNB Vita Poetry Award (2000), for Down to My Last Skin
 RAU-Prys vir Skeppende Skryfwerk (2001), for Kleur kom nooit alleen nie
 Protea Prize for best Afrikaans poetry (2006), for Verweerskrif
 Elisabeth Eybers Prize (2015), for Mede-wete
 Hertzog Prize (2017), for Mede-weteEin Prose Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction (1999), for Country of My Skull
 Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award (1999), for Country of My Skull
 Olive Schreiner Prize (2000), for Country of My Skull
 Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award (2004), for A Change of TongueEin Translations South African Translators' Institute Award for Outstanding Translation (2001-3), for Met woorde soos met kerse"The SATI Award for Outstanding Translation 2003". South African Translators' Institute. 28 June 2004. Archived from the original on 30 July 2004.Ein Journalism Foreign Correspondents' Association Award (1996)
 Pringle Medal for outstanding services to South African journalism (1997)

Dem share both journalism awards plus de rest of de SABC demma TRC reporting team.Ein Lifetime achievement Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Award (2000)
 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees Afrikaans Onbeperk Award for innovative thinking (2004)
 Central European University Open Society Prize (2005)
 SALA Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)
 Gouden Ganzenveer (2018)

Na dem sanson award  Krog honorary doctorates from de Tavistock Clinic for de University of East London, de University of Stellenbosch, de University of the Free State, den Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
 References 

 Read further Afrikaans: Conradie, Pieter. Geslagtelikheid in die Antjie Krog-teks. Elserivier: Nasionale Handelsdrukkery, 1996. ISBN 0620207191
 Van Niekerk, Jacomien. 'Baie worde': identiteit en transformasie by Antjie Krog. Pretoria: Van Schaik, 2016. ISBN 0627035302
 Viljoen, Louise. Ons ongehoorde soort: beskouings oor die werk van Antjie Krog. Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2009. ISBN 1920109986English:'''

 Beukes, Marthinus. "The birth of the 'new woman': Antjie Krog and gynogenesis as a discourse of power". In Shifting Selves: Post-Apartheid Essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity (ed. Herman Wasserman & Sean Jacobs), 167–180. Cape Town: Kwela, 2003. ISBN 0795701640
 Brown, David & Krog, Antjie. "Creative non-fiction: a conversation" (interview). Current Writing 23(1):57-70, 2011. DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2011.572345
 Garman, Anthea. Antjie Krog and the Post-Apartheid Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2015. ISBN 9781869142933
 Krog, Antjie. "'I, me, me, mine!': Autobiographical fiction and the 'I'". English Academy Review 22:100-107, 2005. DOI:10.1080/10131750485310111
 Lütge, Judith & Coullie, Andries Visagie (ed.). Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014. ISBN 1869142535
 McDonald, Peter D. "Beyond translation: Antjie Krog vs. the 'mother tongue'". In Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780198725152
 Strauss, Helene. “From Afrikaner to African: whiteness and the politics of translation in Antjie Krog’s A Change of Tongue”. African Identities 4(2):179-194, 2006. DOI:10.1080/14725840600761112
 Viljoen, Louise. "The mother as pre-text: (auto)biographical writing in Antjie Krog's A Change of Tongue". Current Writing 19(2):187-209, 2007. DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2007.9678280
 Viljoen, Louise. "Translation and transformation: Antjie Krog's translation of indigenous South African verse into Afrikaans". Scrutiny2 11(1):32-45, 2006. DOI:10.1080/18125441.2006.9684200
 West, Mary. "The metamorphosis of the sole/soul: shades of whiteness in Antjie Krog's A Change of Tongue". In White Women Writing White: Identity and Representation in (Post-)Apartheid Literatures of South Africa. Cape Town: New Africa Books, 2012. ISBN 0864867158
 Wicomb, Zoë. "Five Afrikaner texts and the rehabilitation of whiteness". Social Identities'' 23(1):363-383, 1998

 External links 

 Videos of television program featuring Krog
 "African Forgiveness – too sophisticated for the West" (opening speech for de 2004 Berlin International Literature Festival)

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