Sy/haar/Hertzog

The latest South African Academy for Science and Art’s series of tributes to Hertzog Prize winners focus on Antjie Krog and Wilma Stockenström. Antjie has won the prize three times for poetry, and Wilma twice, once in poetry and once in prose. Marni Bonthuys interviews editors Louise Viljoen (Antjie Krog: ‘n Ondersoekte lewe) and Ronel Foster (Wilma Stockenström: Met my wysvingertop) about the publications, as well as the influence, politics and controversy surrounding literary awards. Poets read from Naledi’s tribute anthology Ewige tydelikheid, which features new poems about Wilma Stockenström.