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André Brink
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South African writer (1935–2015)
Key facts
- Born
- André Philippus Brink , ( 1935-05-29 ) 29 May 1935, Vrede , South Africa
- Died
- 6 February 2015 (2015-02-06) (aged 79), on a flight from Amsterdam , Netherlands, to South Africa
- Occupation
- Writer
- Language
- Afrikaans English
- Alma mater
- University of Potchefstroom Sorbonne University
- Notable works
- A Dry White Season An Act of Terror A Chain of Voices
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brink
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Vrede
- Place of death
- Cape Town
- Educated at
- North-West University
- Employer
- University of Cape Town
- Languages spoken
- Afrikaans
- Movement
- Sestigers
- Image
- André Brink Portrait.jpg
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- date of death
- 2015-02-06
- Commons category
- André Brink
- date of birth
- 1935-05-29
- birth name
- André Philippus Brink
- name in native language
- Andre Brink
- writing language
- Afrikaans
- official blog URL
- andrebrink.book.co.za
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to André Brink, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
André Philippus Brink OIS (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans dissident intellectual and literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikaner people to world literature, to use the Afrikaans language to speak out against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party-controlled government, and also to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist literature, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature. While André Brink's early novels were especially concerned with his own opposition to apartheid, his later work engaged the new questions of life in South Africa since the end of National Party rule in 1994.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “André Brink” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.