ANTJIE KROG'SEnglish prose debut was an extraordinary success. Country of My Skull met with much critical acclaim and unprecedented interest locally and in several markets and various translations published abroad. It won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, the BookData/South African Booksellersrs" Book of the Year prize, the Hiroshima Foundation Award, the Olive Schreiner Award for the best work of prose published between 1998 and 2000, and received an Honourable Mention in the 1999 Noma Awards for Publishing in Africa. It appears as one of ls"Africars"s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Centuryrs" in a list compiled and adjudicated by a panel of the continentrs"s leading writers and academics.Down to My Last Skin, a collection of Krogrs"s poetry in English translation, was the inaugural winner of the FNB Vita Poetry Award in 2000.Antjie Krog was born on the farm Middenspruit in the Free State province of South Africa. She is the mother of four children and lives in Cape Town with her architect husband, John Samuel.