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Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape. After her parents’ divorce, Jonker experienced a childhood of material deprivation and emotional setbacks.
In her early adulthood she had a short, unhappy marriage.
Jonker was a sensitive child with a keen self-awareness and gifted beyond her years. She started writing poetry at the age of six and her first published poems appeared in her high school magazine.
Her first known collection of poems, Na die Somer (After the Summer) was compiled in 1946, when she was just thirteen.
By sixteen, she was corresponding with seasoned Afrikaans poets such as D.J. Opperman and her work was published regularly in family magazines such as Die Huisgenoot.
The first collection of poems by Jonker to be published was Ontvlugting (Escape), in 1956.
After delays caused by the apprehension of nervous publishers, her second collection of poem