Andre p brink biography

  • André Philippus Brink OIS (– 6 February ) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet.
  • André Philippus Brink OIS was a South African novelist, essayist and poet.
  • Born: May 29, , Vrede, South Africa ; Died: February 6, , in an airplane traveling from the Netherlands to South Africa (aged 79).

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    André Brink

    South African writer (–)

    André Philippus BrinkOIS (29 May – 6 February ) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.[1][2]

    In the s 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 supremacistNational 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 Nation

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    André P. Brink

    André P. Brink () was a world renowned Afrikaans novelist, travel writer, essayist, translator, playwright, critic, director and literary scholar.

    Sometimes referred to as A.P. Brink or André Brink.

    Biography

    Born André Phillipus Brink in Vrede in the Orange Free State 29 May , grew up and matriculated in Lydenburg in , obtaining a rare seven distinctions.

    A formidable cultural activist, he became a leading member of the influential Sestigers movement among Afrikaans writers and a founder member of the Afrikaanse Skrywersgilde ("Afrikaans Writers' Guild") of the s.

    He was married five times, inter alia briefly to actress, playwright and academic Salomi Louw (), somewhat longer to theatre designer and costumier Alta Muller () and finally to Karina Szczurek. His son, Anton Brink, is an artist.

    He died on 6 February on board a flygning travelling with his wife from Amsterdam to Cape Town, shortly after having received an honorary doctorate from the Univer

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    André Brink
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  • Findlay, Allan. “André kant and the Challenge from within South Africa.” In Proceedings from the Second Nordic Conference for English. Edited by Hakan Ringbom and Matti Rissananen, – Åbo, Finland: Abo Akademi Foundation,

    An insightful chronological overview of Brink’s fiction up to A Chain of Voices, carefully outlining Brink’s abiding themes and style, and stressing his explicit political purpose and the presiding topicality of his work. Findlay nonetheless emphasizes the imaginative component of Brink’s engagement with South African history and politics.

  • Hassall, Anthony J. “André Brink.” In International Literature in English. Edited by Robert L. Ross, – Chicago: St James,

    A very informed overview of Brink’s life and work up to States of Emergency. It underscores the impact on Brink’s writing of his encounter with modern European l

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