Antjie Krog Biography 

Antjie Krog is a poet, writer, journalist and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. She published twelve volumes of poetry in Afrikaans, two volumes in English, and two non-fiction books: Country of my Skull, on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; A Change of Tongue about the transformation in South Africa after ten years. Her work has been translated into English, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian and Arabic. Country of my Skull is being widely prescribed at universities as part of the curriculum dealing with writing about the past. She was also asked to translate the autobiography of Nelson Mandela, ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ into Afrikaans.

Krog had been awarded most of the prestigious awards for non-fiction, translation and poetry available in Afrikaans and English, as well as the Award from the Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture for the year 2000, as well as the Open Society Prize from the Central European University (previous winners were Jürgen Habermas and Vaclav Havel).

• Honorary Doctorate from the Tavistock Clinic of the University of East London UK
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Free State
• Honorary Doctorate from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University