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Krog, Antjie
ISBN 
9781415200063
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R260.00
Published 
April 2006
About the book: 

'n Vreeslose en ekstatiese verkenning van 'n bewussyn wat aftakeling en verweer in die oog staar. In 'n stem eie aan Krog word die taboes in die verskuiwende gemoedstoestande van die menopouse met woede en verbale intensiteit beskryf. Intieme verhoudings word skreiend eerlik ondersoek. In die laaste, meer bepeinsende gedeelte word die intens persoonlike getemper. 

Die fokus verskuif na Tafelberg – 'n alomteenwoordigee, durende teenwoordigheid wat oor vier jaargetye waargeneem word; die onnaspeurlike getuie van verandering, maar ironies ook 'n spieel van die self en persoonlike pyn.

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About the Author
Antjie Krog was born and grew up in the Free State. She became editor of the Afrikaans current-affairs magazine Die Suid-Afrikaan and later worked as a radio jounalist covering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, all the while writing extensively for newspapers and journals. She and her radio colleagues
received the Pringle Award for excellence in journalism for their coverage of the Commission hearings, from which came the best known of her three non-fiction books, Country of My Skull.

She has won major awards in almost all the genres and  media in which she has worked: poetry, non-fiction and translation. But, mainly, she has lived as a poet. Krog’s first volume of poetry was published when she was seventeen years old and she has since released thirteen volumes of poetry and received among others the Eugène Marais Prize, the Hertzog Prize, the FNB Prize, the Protea Prize, and, for non-fiction, the Alan Paton Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award. She has also been a recipient of the Stockholm Award from the Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture and the Open Society Prize. She is married to architect John Samuel.