Krog, Antjie
About Antjie Krog
Biography (South African History Online)
Biography (Poetry International Archives)
Reviews
Daymond, M. J. “Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse.” Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 71, no. 1, 2017
Penfold, Tom. “Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee.” South African Historical Journal, vol. 68, no. 3, 2016
Klopper, Dirk. “Conditional Tense: After the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 41, no. 5, 2015
Coetzee, Carli. “Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” African Affairs, vol. 113, no. 453, 2014
Hoffert, Barbara. “Skinned.” Library Journal, vol. 138, no. 11, 2013
Sibanda, Bhekimpilo. “Begging to Be Black.” Critical Arts, vol. 26, no. 4, 2012
Napolitanco, Joe. “Translating Mrs. Konile.” Interventions, vol. 13, no. 2, 2011
Abrahams, Cecil. “A Change of Tongue.” Biography, vol. 32, no. 1, 2011
Nolan, Mary. “The Elusive Pursuit of Truth and Justice: A Review Essay.” Radical History Review, vol. 97, 2007
Coetzee, Carli. “'They Never Wept, the Men of my Race': Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull and the White South African Signature.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 27, no. 4, 2001
North, James. “The Healing Power of Truth.” Washington Monthly, vol. 31, no. 7-8, 1999
Gerhart, Gail M. “Country of My Skull.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 5, 1998
Interviews
McDonald, Peter. “Art & Action: An Exchange with Antjie Krog.” Artefacts of Writing, 1 Aug. 2020
Dimitriu, Ileana. “Translating and Being Translated.” Scrutiny2, vol. 12, no. 2, 2007
Carroll, Rory. “'I Write Because I Can't Speak'”, The Guardian, 2 Jan. 2004
Criticism
Vandermerwe, Meg. “Imagining the 'Forbidden' Racial Other: Attitudes and Approaches in the Works of Antjie Krog, Marlene van Niekerk, Meg Vandermerwe and Zukiswa Wanner.” English in Africa, vol. 45, no. 2, 2018
Scott, Claire. “Voice/Body/Skin: (Dis)locating Belonging in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, A Change of Tongue, and Begging to Be Black.” Scrutiny2, vol. 23, no. 1, 2018
Wiegandt, Kai. "Guilt, Shame and the Politics of Moral Change in Antjie Krog's and Zoë Wicomb's Literary Responses to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 4, 2017
Niekerk, Jacomien van. “The National Question in Antjie Krog’s ‘Transformation Trilogy’.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2017
Viljoen, Louise. “'Straddling Languages': Aspects of the Translational and the Transnational in the Work of Afrikaans Authors Breyten Breytenbach, Marlene van Niekerk and Antjie Krog.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, 2017
Highman, Kate. “Forging a New South Africa: Plagiarism, Ventriloquism and the ‘Black Voice’ in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2015
Rodrigues, Elizabeth. “Antjie Krog and the Autobiography of Postcolonial Becoming.” Biography, vol. 37, no. 3, 2014
Young, Sandra Michele. “Hospitality in a Postapartheid Archive: Reflections on There Was This Goat and the Challenge of Alterity.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012
Lieskounig, Jürgen. “Body, History and Mythicisation: Antjie Krog's South African Novel, A Change of Tongue.” African Identities, vol. 9, no. 2, 2011
Weyer, Christy. “'Stripping' in English: Antjie Krog's Poetry, Translated and Transformed.” Scrutiny2, vol. 16, no. 1, 2011
Garman, Anthea. “Global Resonance, Local Amplification: Antjie Krog on a World Stage.” Social Dynamics, vol. 36, no. 1, 2010
Strauss, Helene. “From Afrikaner to African: Whiteness and the Politics of Translation in Antjie Krog's A Change of Tongue.” African Identities, vol. 4, no. 2, 2008
Renders, Luc. “Antjie Krog: An Unrelenting Quest for Wholeness.” Dutch Crossing, vol. 30, no. 1, 2006
Works
Novels
A Change of Tongue (2005)
Country of My Skull (1989)
Children's and Young Adult's Books
Fynbos Fairies (2007)
Poetry Collections
Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse (2016)
Synapse (2014)
Skinned: A Selection of Translated Poems (2013)
Body Bereft (2006)
The Stars Say ‘Tsau’ (2004)
Down to My Last Skin (2000)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2013)
Begging to Be Black (2010)
With Nosisi L. Mpolweni-Zantsi and Kopano Ratele. There Was this Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile, 2009
Account of a Murder, original Afrikaans version published in 1995 (1997)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Antjie Krog on The Cry of Winnie Mandela, YouTube, 10 Mar. 2019
Literary Globe Interview with Antjie Krog, YouTube, 18 Feb. 2018
Antjie Krog: Reading and Discussion for The Library of Congress, YouTube, 30 Nov. 2017