Ingrid Jonker: A Jacana pocket biography

By (author): Louise Viljoen. Louise Viljoen's biography follows South African poet Ingrid Jonker, whose poem "Die Kind" gained international attention when Nelson Mandela read it at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament in 1994. It traces her brief, intense career against the backdrop of apartheid repression and her fraught relationship with her father, a National Party politician, providing close readings of her poetry alongside an account of her death by suicide at 31 in 1965. (Note: sourced from the Ohio University Press international edition, "Poet Under Apartheid," by the same author — the Jacana pocket biography is the South African edition of the same text.)