WhyilovethisbookCC BY 3.0File pageAntjie Krog
- poet
- journalist
- writer
- translator
- prose writer
- playwright
- literary critic
- editing staff
- university teacher
- essayist
- Born 1952-10-23 (age 73)
- Nationality South Africa
Known for
| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 |  In My Country | Movie | screenwriter | 52 |
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- In My Countryscreenwriter
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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.
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?
By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
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.
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Personal details
- Nationalities
- South Africa
- Eye colour
- brown
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Languages
- Afrikaans, English, Dutch
- Notable works
- Country of My Skull
- Education
- University of Pretoria, University of South Africa, University of the Free State