<P> In 1943, when Ingrid was ten years old, Jonker's mother committed suicide after her descent into depression in the years after her father had thrown his wife and children out of his life in disgrace . Jonker and her older sister Anna were then sent to Wynberg Girls' High School in Cape Town, where she began writing poetry for the school magazine . They later moved in with their father and his third wife and their children . The two sisters were treated as outsiders, which caused a permanent rift between Jonker and her father . </P> <P> Jonker started writing poems when she was six years old and, by the age of sixteen, she had started a correspondence with D.J. Opperman, South African writer and poet, whose views influenced her work greatly . </P> <P> Her first collection of Afrikaans poems, Na die somer ("After the summer") was produced before she was thirteen . Although several publishers were interested in her work, she was advised to wait before going into print . Her first published book of poems, Ontvlugting ("Escape"), was eventually published in 1956 . </P> <P> Jonker married Pieter Venter in 1956, and their daughter Simone was born in 1957 . The couple moved to Johannesburg, but three years later they separated . Jonker and her daughter then moved back to Cape Town . </P>

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