In recent years Jonker’s short and troubled life has been the subject of several films, plays, books and albums. “Through her beautiful poems, in her mother tongue Afrikaans, Ingrid Jonker ...

Ingrid Jonker's fine poetry is always, unfortunately, going to be overshadowed by the fact of her death at age 31 in 1965. Mention her name and her suicide by drowning comes to mind. Much as Anne ...

Confronted by death, she asserted the beauty of life,” President Nelson Mandela said of Ingrid Jonker in his inaugural address to Parliament on May 24, 1994. That was after he had read her poem ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice ...

“I now experience her through her poems.” They recently released Ingrid Jonker – Die Kind Is Nog Jonger features 36 musical tributes performed and recorded by South African artists, from stalwarts ...

Chris Chameleon has once again set Ingrid Jonker's poems to music in his new album "As Jy Weer Skryf", which follows on from the success of "Ek Herhaal Jou" in 2005. "As Jy Weer Skryf" has a much ...

Van Houten as teh tragic Jonker, whose poetry is inscribed in South Africa ... all married and emotionally unattainable. Ingrid was not entirely likeable, and the movie makes no attempt to ...

Ingrid Jonker. Jonker was resurrected in the minds of South Africans when, in his first address in the new South African Parliament on May 24 1994, Nelson Mandela read from Jonker’s poem Die ...

Jonker (van Houten ... Assembled into the collection “Smoke and Ochre,” the poem puts an end to Ingrid’s relationship with her father, causing her to slide further into a funk from which ...

He has won the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry. When Jacques Coetzee's debut book of poetry was selected for publication in 2020, his publisher diplomatically suggested that the book was ...

the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled collections of poems.

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice ...