Krige, Uys

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Section: Poets in the News
Poet Name: Krige, Uys
Given Name: Uys
Last Name: Krige
Date of Birth: 10 February 1910
Biography: Uys Krige was a South African writer and poet born in 1910 and known for writing in both Afrikaans and English. Though he spent some years in the 1930s living in France and Spain, he returned to South Africa in 1935 to become a reporter for the South African Rand Daily Mail. During World War II, he was a war correspondent with the South African Army and was captured, spending two years as a prisoner of war. Krige's talent with Romance languages meant he became the primary translator of Romance literature into Afrikaans, which had a great impact on modern South African writing.

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Education: University of Stellenbosch
News Items: Radio; A Bolter and the Invincible Summer; Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; A New Look in Writing; One World in Four Volumes; Sounding the Sixties--2: The Commonwealth
Works: Classical and Byzantine and Oriental and African: The Penguin Companion to Literature; Ballade van die groot begeer (Ballad of the great desire); Oorlogsgedigte (War poems); Rooidag (Red day); Kentering (Change); Hart sonder hawe (Heart without harbour); Vooraand (The evening before)
Close Relationships: Austen, Jane; Nel, Gert Vlok; Buchan, John; Hambidge, Joan 'Helene'; Brink, André Philippus; Clarke, Austin; Barnes, William; Leavis, Frank Raymond 'F. R.'; Williams, William Carlos; Clouston, Joseph Storer; Heaney, Seamus; Naipaul, V. S.; Jacobson, Dan; Ginsberg, Allen; Miller, Henry; Abrahams, Peter; Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key; Naude, Charl-Pierre; Fraser, George Sutherland 'G. S.'; Marais, Danie; Cavalcanti, Guido; May, Derwent J.; Niekerk, Marlene; Nkosi, Lewis; Huxley, Thomas Henry 'T. H.'; Cameron, Norman; Ellison, Ralph Waldo; Buchanan, George; Lessing, Doris; Smit, Hettie; Neruda, Pablo; Stein, Gertrude; Borges, Jorge Luis; Hemingway, Ernest; Bosman, Herman Charles; Brown, George Mackay; Louw, W. E. G.; Lowell, Robert; Millin, Sarah Gertrude; Garioch, Robert; Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'; Bruce, George; Graves, Robert; Faulkner, William; Andrade, Jorge Carrera; Christie, Agatha; Stockenstrom, Wilma; Montague, John; Marais, Loftus 'Lodewikus Stefanus'; Schuitema, Barend; Morton, Do; Tolstoy, Leo; Bradley, Francis Herbert 'F. H.'; Clingman, Stephen; Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville 'P. G.'; Higgins, Frederick Robert 'F. R.'; Murphy, Richard; Thirkell, Angela; Narayan, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer 'R. K.'; Pound, Ezra; Lamming, George; van den Heever, C. M.; Muller, Petra; Noyes, Alfred; Lawrence, David Herbert 'D. H.'; Rabie, Jan; Woods, Donald James; Pselus, Michael; wa Thiong'o, Ngugi 'James'; Daiches, David; Montale, Eugenio; Rohmer, Sax; Comnena, Anna; FitzPatrick, James Percy; Parra, Nicanor; van Bruggen, Jochem; Verwey, Len; Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich; Wolfe, Humbert; Schreiner, Olive; Freeman, John; Moore, Gerald Edward 'G. E.'; Jackson, Laura 'Riding Jackson'; James, Henry; Berryman, John Allyn McAlpin; MacDiarmid, Hugh; Tutuola, Amos; Dickens, Charles; Gordimer, Nadine; Smith, Pauline Janet; Renault, Mary; Chekhov, Anton; Baldwin, James; Breytenbach, Breyten; Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise; Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'; Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'; van den Heever, Toon; Blum, Peter; Peters, Lenrie; Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'; Marais, Eugène Nielen; Plomer, William; Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'; Butler, Guy; Pringle, Thomas; Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'; Madge, Charles Henry; Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'; Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu'; Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'; Paton, Alan; Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus; Wright, David; Campbell, Roy; Rousseau, Ina; Naude, Adele; Brutus, Dennis Vincent; Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'; van Heerden, Ernst; MacNab, Roy; Celliers, Jan; Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'; Okigbo, Christopher
Place of Birth: South Africa, Bontebokskloof
Spatial Coverage: Bontebokskloof
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News