Stephen Watson, a poet and the head of the University of Cape Town’s English department has accused Antjie Krog, the Afrikaner author of Country of My Skull, of “lifting material from a range of writers, including the late British poet laureate Ted Hughes and two 19th-century European linguists. He said Country of My Skull, an award-winning account of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was recently turned into a Hollywood film, used words and phrases from Hughes’s 1976 essay Myth and Education.”