Van Houten as the tragic Jonker, whose poetry is inscribed in South Africa’s history, as well as the flesh of those who carry it. Courtesy of Tribeca Films Running time: 100 minutes. Understandably, ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice van ...

It took director Helena Nogueira 10 years to finish a documentary about embattled poet Ingrid Jonker and now, with backing from an international producer, she's looking for a South African actress to ...

Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa’s Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites ...

Afda is delighted to announce that Afda Cape Town Screen Acting lecturer, Gerard Rudolf, recently was awarded the Ingrid Jonker L'Art Poétique Prize. Gerard Rudolf, Afda Cape Town Screen Acting ...

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled ...

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Fifty years after Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker vanished into the ocean off Three Anchor Bay, her daughter Simone and her spouse Ernesto Garcia Marques began creating a tribute to Jonker by setting her ...

This tribute album surpasses the inherent entertainment value, expanding to preserve Jonker's legacy, her work, language, history and culture. Jonker's passionate poems are reinvigorated with a wide ...

Coetzee has been writing poetry and singing since he was a child, spurred on by his mother's readings to the family of action-driven narrative poems and by his two older sisters' enthusiasm about ...

The uncompromising power of Ingrid Jonker’s poetry runs like a pulsing vein through “Black Butterflies,” a 1960s-set drama whose several strong points include the angry intensity of Carice van ...