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Uys KrigeUys Krige (christened Mattheus Uys Krige) (4 February 1910 - 10 August 1987) was a South African writer, poet, playwright, translator, rugby player, war correspondent and romantic. He was born in Bontebokskloof (near Swellendam) in the Cape Province.He was educated at the University of Stellenbosch. From 1931 to 1935 he lived in France and Spain, where he learned to speak both languages fluently. Krige also played rugby for a club in Toulon in the south of France. When he arrived back in South Africa in 1935, he began his writing career as a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail. He took part in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, fighting on the Republican side. During World War II he was a war correspondent with the South African Army in North Africa. He was captured in 1941 and sent to Italy where he spent two years in a prisoner of war camp. However, he escaped in September 1943 and returned to South Africa in 1946. As a writer and poet Krige was extremely versatile — his works include novels, short stories, poems and plays in both Afrikaans and English. He co-edited The Penguin Book of South African Verse (1968) with Jack Cope. Krige translated many of the works of Shakespeare into Afrikaans. He translated works by Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda and Lope de Vega from Spanish, and works by Baudelaire, François Villon and Paul Éluard from French. His brother was the painter and draughtsman François Krige. Their travels together in Spain were captured in Uys's book Sol y Sombra for which François provided the provocative illustrations. He died near the town of Hermanus in the Cape Province. BibliographyAll publications are in Afrikaans unless otherwise noted. The English translation of the Afrikaans titles are given in brackets.
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