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 ...

Ingrid Jonker: A poet’s life. Petrovna Metelerkamp (Hemel & See, R260) “She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African. She was both an artist and a human being.

“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 ...

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 Kind Wat ...

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 ...

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, and find streaming options for A Mere Grain of Nothing My Death: A Life in Poetry - Ingrid Jonker. Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.

He has won the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry. South Africa: Ingrid Jonker Prize Winner Jacques Coetzee On Political Awakening, Blindness, Poetry and Music - allAfrica.com AllAfrica ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...