Pieter venter ingrid jonker biography

South African poet

Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) OIS was a South African poet and one of the founders of modern Afrikaans literature.

Her poems have been widely translated into other languages.

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Dimeziñ a reas Ingrid Jonker da Pieter Venter hag ur verc'h o devoe, met dispartiet e voent tri bloaz goude ganedigezh ar verc'hig-se.

Ingrid Jonker married Pieter Venter in , and their daughter, Simone Cilliers Jonker, was born in The family moved to Johannesburg.

Born into an Afrikaner family with four hundred year old roots in South Africa, Ingrid Jonker grew up in a broken home. After the death of her mother, she and her sister Anna moved in with their estranged father, where they faced secret and escalating emotional abuse from their step mother before both moving out.

During the 1950s and 1960s, which saw the Sharpeville massacre, the increasingly draconian enforcement of Apartheid laws, and escalating terrorism committed both by Government security forces and by the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress, Jonker chose to affiliate herself with Cape Town's racially mixed literary bohemia, which gathered around her fellow Afrikaner poet and literary mentor Uys Krige in the beach-side suburb of