Petrovna metelerkamp ingrid jonker biography
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Ingrid Jonker 'n Biografie
Hierdie leser het heelwat navorsing oor Ingrid Jonker (o.a.) gedoen en is opgewonde oor die nuwe inligting (hoe skraal dan ook) wat bygekom het. Daar is egter nie genoeg "nuwe" materiaal om die basiese narratief rondom Jonker se lewe
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Ingrid Jonker: ’n biografie
Petrovna Metelerkamp
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781415209363
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Ingrid Jonker: A Poet`s Life by Petrovna Metelerkamp
NEW Paperback
This edition Published: 2013
Goodreads Rating: None Available
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. In the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. 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 child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga in full.
Often compared to Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf because of her suicide (she drowned in July 1965), sometimes to Marilyn Monroe over her tumultuous love life and sadness and used as an icon for political motivation or literary rebelliousness, Ingrid Jonker has become mythologised.
The fact is she was a truly South African poet and merits to be read in English as well.
In this attractively illustrated biography Petrovna Metelerkamp gives an expanded translation 10 years after publication of the Afrikaans version Beeld van n digterslewe. This edition contains new material and a different cover with a mesmerising photograph of Jonker with the sea and the poem Korreltjie Korreltjie sand in a faded background. As the author says