# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uys-krige
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:23:55.336Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uys-krige"
name: "Uys Krige"
slug: "uys-krige"
description: "Mattheus Uys Krige 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. 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."
tagline: "Afrikaner poet and translator (1910-1987)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-02-04"
deathDate: "1987-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.28383866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "اویس کریگے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Uys Krige"
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    title: "ايس كريج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Uys Krige"
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    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Kriege"
    title: "Uys Kriege"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Криге, Эйс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Uys Krige"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uys_Krige"
    title: "Uys Krige"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2236474"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump