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    Ingrid Jonker 'n Biografie

    March 20,
    'n Artikel van Charles Smith (10 Julie /kcom/ZA/Stronk/i) lui, " (hierdie boek) is wat die Hollanders noem 'n uitputtende biografie. Dit beteken die volledige biografie. Ek dink ek het die bronne uitgeput." Of , om Herman Lategan aan te haal: "die meesterlike laaste woord oor Ingrid Jonker," albei met die gevoel dat "talle" nuwe bronne bygevoeg is. Janet Malcolm wat in ’n soort “biografie” oor Sylvia Plath en Ted Hughes geskryf het, bewys dat so iets eenvoudig onmoontlik is. Nie net is die navorsers verskeie jare (en veranderinge/ontwikkelinge) later daarheen waar hulle probeer het om ’n gevoel van die digter se lewe te kry nie, maar die agtergeblewenes was óf nie bereid om daaroor te praat nie (bv. Jack Cope), óf het vergeet wat werklik gebeur het (bv. Uys Krige, wat tydens 'n motorongeluk erge harsingskudding opgedoen het). Kyk maar net na die ironie van Simone Simmons se "The Last Word", 'n boek wat oor Prinses Diana geskryf is en

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    Ingrid Jonker. Translations by/Vertaal deur Antjie Krog & André Brink, &
    Charl-Pierre Naudé

    Ingrid Jonker was born on a farm in Douglas, near Kimberley in the nordlig Cape on 19 September Her parents, Abraham Jonker and Beatrice Cilliers, separated very early in her life.  Beatrice returned to her parents to raise her two small girls. The family moved on to a farm near Cape Town, but when her grandfather died five years later, the four women were left destitute.
    Jonker&#;s mother died in , and Ingrid and Anna were sent to school in Cape Town. The sisters later moved in with their father and his third wife and their children, but it was a traumatic arrangement that yielded the beginning of what would become a permanent rift between Jonker and her began writing poems as a ung girl, producing her first collection, Na die somer, at bygd 16, she was corresponding with the South African writer and poet D.J. Opperman and publishing in Die Huisgenoot.
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    Ingrid Jonker - A poet's life





    After the tremendous success of the Afrikaans scrapboek bygd biographer Petrovna Metelerkamp on the tragic life & death of this cult poet, the book is now also available in English under the title Ingrid Jonker - A poet's life [Hemel en See Publishers; ISBN R].

    Ingrid Jonker stepped into the waves of Three Anchor Bay on the night of 19 July & drowned. And then emerged as siren, as one of the most beloved, most popular poets in Afrikaans. She has a world wide cult following & her life story is forever entangled with that of authors like André kant & Jack Cope, both dock she had affairs with in her search for a father figure after her own father disowned her because the left wing politics of her poems was an embarrassment to him, a National Party Member of Parliament. On hearing of his daughter's death, he reportedly said: "They can throw her back in the sea for all I care."

    Her poetry has been translated from Afrikaans into Eng