Olga Kirsch: ’n Vreemde boom op hierdie aarde / Olga Kirsch: A Strange Tree on This Earth

The article traces the lasting alienation of Olga Kirsch (1927-1994), a Jewish-born South African poet, as represented in her seven volumes of Afrikaans poetry published between 1944 and 1983. Growing up in a devoutly Christian, Afrikaans-speaking rural community, she found herself an outsider. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Venter Eben
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Sciendo 2014-11-01
Series:Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/werk-2014-0010