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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 12 years ago Dutch artist Niki fell in love with the poems of Ingrid Jonker. This admiration resulted in two CDs and Roos van Jou Mond, which toured The Netherlands for three years and is ...

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 Amabookabooka guest this episode is poet Karin Schimke, winner of the prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize for her debut collection of poetry, Bare & Breaking. By JONATHAN ANCER. Before she won the ...

Afrikaans music lovers used to popular singer Chris Chameleon’s melodious adoptions of renowned South African writer Ingrid Jonker’s poems will have to stand strong: the latest renditions of these ...