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Ingrid Jonker

South African poet
Ingrid Jonker OIS was a South African poet and one of the founders of modern Afrikaans literature. Her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Born into an Afrikaner family with four hundred year old roots in South Africa, Ingrid... Wikipedia
Born: September 19, 1933, Douglas, South Africa
Died: July 19, 1965 (age 31 years), Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
Children: 1
Known for: Poetry