BOEKEHUIS invitation

Bookshop for South African and World Literature BOEKEHUIS & Ster Kinekor invite you to a discussion with the filmmaker Helena Nogueira.

She will speak with Paul Boekkooi, film and theatre critic about the making of the movie, Ingrid Jonker - Her Lives and Time..

This movie is to be released on 26th April at both Rosebank and V & A Cinema Nouveau
Discussion at: BOEKEHUIS,
Cnr. Lothbury and Fawley streets, Auckland Park
When: Saturday 21 April 2007, at 12:30
RSVP: by Thurs 19/04 on
011 482 3609 or boekehuis@vanschaik.com

Special offer: Boekehuis & Ster Kinekor offer 5 double movie tickets to 5 lucky winners who attend this session of Saturday Voices on 21 April..

About the movie:

INGRID JONKER: HER LIVES & TIME is written, edited and directed by Helena Nogueira and

Produced by Shan Moodley

It features amongst others interviews with André Brink, Jan Rabie, Marjorie Wallace, Sir Laurence van der Post, James Mathews, Peter Clarke, Michael Cope and Simone Venter (daughter of Ingrid Jonker).

About Ingrid Jonker:

Ingrid Jonker (born 19 September 1933 ) was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Ingrid Jonker has reached iconic status in South Africa and is often called the South African Sylvia Plath, owing to the intensity of her work and the tragic course of her turbulent life. Her work has also been compared to that of Anne Sexton.

South Africa lost a gifted and sensitive poet when, at the age of 31, Ingrid Jonker ended her own life on 19 July 1965.

The advanced ideas inherent in Ingrid Jonker's poems have made her a recognized literary figure internationally, with her poems being studied, translated and published in many languages including English, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Hindi and Zulu. The collected works of Jonker, including several short stories and a play, were published in 1975 and re-issued in 1983 and 1994.

Former President Nelson Mandela, in commenting on Jonker's poem Die Kind (The Child), which he read out in full in his inaugural State of the Nation address to Parliament in May 1994, said, "... in this glorious vision, she
instructs that our endeavours must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child". Of Jonker herself, Mandela said that: "She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African. She was both an artist and a human being. In the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. Confronted by death, she asserted the beauty of life."

Ingrid Jonker's sensitive, humane and forward-looking perspectives have made her a literary icon of a whole new generation of Afrikaners and South Africans, who have re-discovered her relevance in a free and democratic South Africa.