Paula van der Oest’s biopic of South African poet Ingrid Jonker is conventional yet intriguing thanks in large part to a terrific lead performance from Carice van Houten. By Jordan Mintzer TAORMINA — ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cape Town - The life of South African poet Ingrid Jonker has locally only been examined through a documentary by Helena Nogueira entitled Ingrid Jonker, Her Lives and Time, released in 2001. Now, ...

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 ...

Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker wrote these prophetic words more than ten years before the fateful night of 19 July 1965 when she walked into the sea at Three Anchor Bay. She was 31. Many who were close ...

Romance at its most passionate and heartfelt, Roos van Jou Mond is on until 21 September at the Kalk Bay Theatre before touring to Swellendam (25/26 September), Wellington (27/28 September), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before she won the prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize, before she was an award-winning poet, before she was a blogger, before she was a columnist, before she wrote non-fiction, before she was a ...

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 ...