Anton Krueger

Anton Krueger‘s plays have been performed in eight countries. His radio drama Easter Island was shortlisted out of a thousand entries for the BBC World Drama competition 2016, his most notable work, Living in Strange Lands (2001, 2009) was runner up for the Olive Schreiner award, and his Afrikaans radio drama Altyd, was shortlisted for the RSG Sanlam award of 2013. Anton has also published a novella, Sunnyside Sal (2010), a collection of poetry, Everyday Anomalies (2011), and a volume of comedic short stories, Shaggy (2011), co-written with Pravasan Pillay. He co-edited Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space with Megan Lewis and his work of critical non-fiction, Experiments in Freedom (2010), won the Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award at Rhodes University, where Anton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Drama.


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A Bad Spell

You’re on a long slow road in the Karoo. It’s hot and dry and all of your previous girlfriends are hitchhiking out of Cradock.