Antjie Krog

(1952-) Poet, journalist, playwright and academic.

Born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa, into an Afrikaner family of writers, she grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in the area.

In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) 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 (UNISA) she would lecture at a segregated teacher’s training college for black South Africans. She also led and contribnuted to performances by her students.

Later, Krog became the editor of the independent Afrikaans journal Die Suid-Afrikaan, co-founded by Hermann Giliomee in 1984. On the strength of her work there, she was invited to join the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). For two years, reporting as Antjie Samuel, she contributed to the radio programme AM Live with items on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Based on this experience she wrote whgat is possibly her best known book, Country of My Skull, which chronicled the TRC.

is a prominent South African poet, academic and writer. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.[1]

Her first formal drama text was [[Waarom is dié wat voor toi-toi altyd so vet?]] ("Why are those who toyi-toyi in front always so fat?") (Aardklop, 1999 ),, Waarom is dié wat voor toyi-toyi altyd so vet? (Why are those who toyi-toyi in front always so fat?) (1999) The play, a political tragic-comedy, premiered at the Aardklop Festival in 1999 and was subsequently performed at several locations throughout South Africa, including the Oude Libertas amphitheater in Stellenbosch in February, 2000. The play was directed by Marthinus Basson and starred Tess Van Staden (who was also the Executive Producer) and Nomsa Xaba. The play was considered a powerful contribution to South Africa's ongoing political debate about reconciliation.

She also translated Mamma Medea, from the Dutch play [[Mama Medea]] by Tom Lanoye.

She married to architect John Samuel and has four children: Andries, Susan, Philip, and Willem; Four grandchildren: Anouk, Antjie, Jana and Phillip.