1955
Second Edition.

By Uys Krige
Inscribed by the author.

Ex Libris South African artist Edwine Simon.

This might have been a translators copy with annotations.

Mattheus Uys Krige (1910 – 1987) was a South African writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays in Afrikaans and English. In Afrikaans literature, Krige is counted among the Dertigers ("Writers of the Thirties"). Uys Krige was, according to his friend Jack Cope, very much an exception among Afrikaner poets and writers of his generation due to his hostility to extreme Afrikaner nationalism, White Supremacism, and his literary translations of Latin American poetry by non-White authors into Afrikaans; which have had an enormous influence upon South African literature and culture. Later in his life, Krige served as a mentor and father figure to the Afrikaans literary movement known as die Sestigers; whom he convinced into speaking truth to power about the 1948–1994 rule of the National Party and its policies of both Apartheid and censorship in South Africa.

Edwine Simon was born in Luanshya, in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in 1939 and came to South Africa at the age of three. She graduated in Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She was awarded a scholarship for overseas study and completed a postgraduate certificate in Education at the University of London. She was vice-principal of the Ruth Prowse School of Fine Art and Design. Edwine Simon has held nine solo exhibitions and also participated in numerous group exhibitions.

144mm x 210mm

R2,500