Uys Krige

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1910 – 1987

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Who was Uys Krige?

Mattheus Uys Krige was a South African writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays in both Afrikaans and English. He was born in Bontebokskloof in the Cape Province and educated at the University of Stellenbosch.

From 1931 to 1935 he lived in France and Spain, acquiring fluency in both languages. He played rugby for a club in Toulon in the south of France. He returned to South Africa in 1935 and began a writing career as a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail. During World War II he was a war correspondent with the South African Army in North Africa. Captured at Tobruk in 1941, he was sent to Italy, spending two years in a prisoner of war camp from which he escaped to return to South Africa.

Krige is counted among the so-called Dertigers. He co-edited The Penguin Book of South African Verse with Jack Cope. He translated many of the works of Shakespeare into Afrikaans. He also translated works by Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Lope de Vega and Juan Ramón Jiménez from Spanish, and works by Baudelaire, François Villon and Paul Éluard from French.

Uys Krige died near Hermanus in the Cape Province in 1987, aged 77.

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Born
Feb 4, 1910
Cape Province
Nationality
  • South Africa
Profession
Education
  • Stellenbosch University
Died
Aug 10, 1987
Hermanus, Western Cape

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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