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

Zvomuya, Percy. “Percy Zvomuya Interviews Antjie Krog on Begging to Be Black.” Sunday Times Books Live, 20 Nov. 2009

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

“‘How Does One Take Part in a National Dialogue when Your Voice Carries this Baggage?’ Antjie Krog Interviews Award-Winning Poet Karin Schimke.” The Johannesburg Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2018

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