Rook en Oker by Ingrid Jonker (1964)

Tweede Druk, Februarie 1964, Arikaanse Pers- Boekhandel, Johannesburg, hardcover, Afrikaans text, index of poems, 58 pages, 14.2 cms x 24.8 cms, some wear. slight loss & repair to dust jacket, previous owner's written name to first free endpaper, otherwise condition: very good.

Ingrid Jonker (1933 1965)  was a South African poet and one of the founders of modern Afrikaans literature. 

"Rook en Oker" ("Smoke and Ochre") was published in 1963. This is the first edition, second impression. The anthology was praised by most South African writers, poets and critics and Ingrid became known as one of the "Die Sestigers", a group that  included Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Adam Small and Bartho Smit. They challenged the nationalism of the ruling National Party.

"Rook en Oker" won Jonker the £1000 Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel (Afrikaans Press-Booksellers) Literary Award and a scholarship from Anglo American . The fumds helped her  realize her dream of travelling to Europe, where she went to England, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal. She asked Jack Cope to accompany her, but he refused. Jonker then asked André Brink to join her.