Antjie Krog, born October 23, 1952 in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa, is a prominent South African poet, academic and writer. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape. Born into an Afrikaner family of writers, she grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in the area. In 1970, at the height of John Vorster's apartheid years, she penned an anti-apartheid poem for her school magazine: Gee vir my 'n land waar swart en wit hand aan hand, vrede en liefde kan bring in my mooi land scandalising her conservative Afrikaans-speaking... community and bringing the attention of the national media to her parents' doorstep: In 1973 she earned a BA degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from the University of Pretoria in 1976. With a teaching diploma from the University of South Africa she would lecture at a segregated teacher’s training college for black South Africans.
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| Birthdate: | October 23, 1952 |
| Birthplace: | Kroonstad |
| Age: | 59 |