Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm near Douglas, in the Northern Cape. Her parents separated early and she lost her mother as a child. She wrote from childhood and at thirteen gathered a first notebook of poems, then published her first collection in 1956. Her father, Abraham Jonker, a member of parliament for the National Party, chaired the parliamentary committee in charge of censorship; she opposed him, and he publicly disowned her. Close to the Sestigers, the mother of a daughter born in 1957, she died in Cape Town, at Three Anchor Bay, on 19 July 1965, aged thirty-one.

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• PoetryRook en okerIngrid Jonker · 1963Literature