Born 1952 · South Africa
UJ-prys 2026 · Winner
Binnerym van bloed
Antjie Krog · 73 when first published
Novel · 248 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A poet returns to the Free State plains of her childhood and writes about her mother, a writer in her nineties who now needs full-time care, drawing on their letters, diaries and the carers’ reports.
UJ-prys 2023 · Winner
Plunder
Antjie Krog · 70 when first published
Poetry · 128 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems about the landscape of a woman’s life, marriage, the body’s decline and small moments of family joy, in which the speaker tries at last to make sense of the country, of herself and of the past.
UJ-prys 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“With an Eye on Tomorrow”
Antjie Krog · 68 when first published
Drama · Historical
AI-generated summary:A verse drama about the friendship between a black king and his white missionary, Moshoeshoe I and Eugène Casalis, who over twenty years face the challenges of working and living together with an eye on a prosperous future.
UJ-prys 2015 · Shortlist
Mede-wete
Antjie Krog · 62 when first published
Poetry · 128 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems on conscience, memory and language, on a shared awareness of guilt, on the relation between self and other, and on land and the ownership of land.
UJ-prys 2001 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Colour Never Comes Alone”
Antjie Krog · 48 when first published
Poetry · 96 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems that for the first time move beyond South Africa, to elsewhere in Africa and to Europe, in search of an identity on the continent and a place within Africa, alongside the personal, the political and the land.