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Antjie Krog


Born
in Kroonstad, South Africa
October 23, 1952

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction


Krog grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in Kroonstad. In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from the University of Pretoria in 1976. With a teaching diploma from the University of South Africa (UNISA) she would lecture at a segregated teacher’s training college for black South Africans.

She is married to architect John Samuel and has four children: Andries, Susan, Philip, and Willem. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

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Average rating: 4.09 · 4,724 ratings · 418 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors
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A Change of Tongue
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Die binnerym van bloed
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Begging to be Black
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Body Bereft
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Plunder
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Waar ik jou word
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Kleur kom nooit alleen nie
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Down to My Last Skin: Poems
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Broze aarde. Een mis voor h...
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“I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.”
― Antjie Krog
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“It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.”
― Antjie Krog
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“And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you?”
― Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
tags: apartheid, history, humanity, south-africa
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