Antjie Krog is a South African poet, translator and academic. Professor in the Arts at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, she has published widely in Afrikaans and English, including the poetry books Jerusalemgangers (1985) and Lady Anne (1989), and the prose works Country of My Skull (1998) and Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2013). ’n Vry vrou: Gedigte van Antjie Krog, a collection of her poems edited by Karen de Wet, was published in 2020. This email exchange with Peter D. McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of Oxford, took place in August 2020.
