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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. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape as Extraordinary Professor.
Antjie Krog is a journalist, poet and author of Country of my Skull, a book on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She has won several awards for her work and has lectured and travelled widely on issues of justice and peace.
Antjie Krog (getroude van Samuel) (* 23 Oktober 1952, Kroonstad -) is 'n prominente Suid-Afrikaanse digteres, akademikus en skryfster. Sy publiseer meeste van haar werke onder haar nooiensvan, Krog.
May 5, 2022 · This year Antjie Krog turns 70 and her passions and commitments, forged in the 1970s, show no waning. For decades she has represented the important role that a poet can play in public life in a...
- Anthea Garman
Antjie Krog was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm in the Kroonstad District of the Free State Province in South Africa. She is the daughter of Willem Krog and Dot Serfontein, herself a writer with whom Krog has a complex relationship of connection and disconnection as literary foremother.
Antjie Krog’s only stage play, Waarom is die wat voor toyi-toyi altyd so vet?, was performed in 1999 under the direction of Marthinus Basson and ’n Ander tongval was adapted for the stage by Saartjie Botha and starred Antoinette Kellerman and Nina Swart.
Anna Elizabeth (Antjie) Krog was born in 1952 into a family of authors - her mother is the famous Afrikaans writer Dot Serfontein - and made her debut as an Afrikaans poet while still in school, when in 1970 at the age of 18, her first volume of poetry, Dogter van Jefta was published.
