Awards, Festivals, Readings, Talks
Ingrid has received various awards, including from Carapace/SnailPress and Dalro. In 2003 she won the Herman Charles Bosman award for Terrestrial Things and in 2008 Mappe del Corpo was awarded the Renzo Sertoli prize for her Italian translator Paola Splendore. She received a 2012 SALA award for Other Signs. Seasonal Fires was nominated for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize. In 2019 she received the Ritratti di Poesia Prize from La Fondazione Cultura e Arte in Rome; her 2022 Molteno Gold Medal from the Khula Foundation was awarded for her contribution to South African literature. Vetplant Fairies won the 2024 Tienie Holloway medal for Children’s Literature from the Akademie van Wetenskap en Kuns.In 2025 Unleaving was awarded AVBOB’s inaugural Johan de Lange award for the best published collection in the English Language category.
Ingrid has benefitted from a Fellowship at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria and at the Rockefeller Foundation Centre, Bellagio. She was a grantee of the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des DAAD. She was a Visiting Writer at the College of Charleston’s Writers’ Series and at Capilano College in Vancouver and shared a co-residency at the Nirox Foundation’s Artist’s Residency Programme.
She has read at festivals around the world. They include “Writers from South Africa” at Northwestern University; the IDASA Writers’ Conference in Zimbabwe; “Les Temps de Livres” in Djibouti; Poetry International, Rotterdam; Cuirt International Festival in Galway, Ireland; The Chicago Book Festival; Berlin Internationales literaturfestival; Aldeburgh Poetry Festival; Poetry Africa, Durban; The Spier Poetry Festival; Aardklop; The Mail and Guardian Festival; The Knysna Festival; Franschhoek Literary Festival; Books on the Bay, Simonstown; Woordfees, Stellenbosch; and a memorial tribute celebration for Adrienne Rich at Columbia University.
She has read at institutions in the USA, including the University of Chicago, New York University, Fordham, Northwestern, Indiana, Dartmouth, Columbia, Massachusetts, Wake Forest, Grand Rapids, SUNY (Buffalo), Barnard, Maryland, Utah and Minnesota Universities and the College of Charleston. She also read at the Open Society in Washington, DC.
In Canada she has given readings at the Universities of Brock; Concordia; British Columbia; Queens’; Mc Master and McGill. In Europe she read at the University of Salzburg, the University of Rome and John Cabot University in Rome.
She has delivered talks at St Andrews, Scotland, in Portland Oregan, at the University of Chicago Millenium Poetry Series, at the Capilano Review Koerner Lecture Series and at the University of Western Sydney. Ingrid has also given short speeches at book launches and art exhibitions in South Africa.