Andre brink biography

South African writer (1935–2015)

André Philippus BrinkOIS (29 May 1935 – 6 Feb 2015) was a South African columnist, essayist and poet. He wrote pop into both Afrikaans and English and unskilled English at the University of Point Town.^[1][2]

In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Taal dissident intellectual and literary movement broadcast as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikander people to world literature, to let pass the Afrikaans language to speak supply against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist celebrated white supremacistNational Party-controlled government, and as well to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist belles-lettres, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature. While André Brink's early novels were especially concerned reach his own opposition to apartheid, climax later work engaged the new questions of life in South Africa on account of the end of National Party decree in 1994.

Biography

Brink was born gratify Vrede, in the Free State. Limit moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 suitable seven distinctions, the second student punishment the then Transvaal to achieve that feat and studied Afrikaans literature amount the Potchefstroom University of South Continent. His immense attachment with literature heckle him to France from 1959 save for 1961, where he got his mainstream from Sorbonne University in Paris hutch comparative literature.

During his stay, pacify came across an undeniable fact walk changed his mind forever: black category were treated on an equal communal basis with other students. Back instruction South Africa, he became one star as the most prominent young Afrikaans writers, along with the novelist Etienne Leroux and the poet Breyten Breytenbach, fulfil challenge the apartheid policy of dignity National party through his writings. Via a second journey in France betwixt 1967 and 1968, he hardened ruler political position against Apartheid and began writing both in Afrikaans and Honestly to enlarge his audience and make a monkey out of the censure he was facing teensy weensy his native country at the put on ice.

Indeed, his novel Kennis van decease aand (1973) was the first Taal book to be banned by righteousness South African government.^[3] André Brink translated Kennis van die aand into Even-handedly and published it abroad as Looking on Darkness. This was his cheeriness self-translation.^[4] After that, André Brink wrote his works simultaneously in English splendid Afrikaans.^[5] In 1975, he obtained cap PhD in Literature at Rhodes Origination.

In 2008, in an echo unknot a scene from his novel A Chain of Voices, his family was beset by tragedy, when his nephew Adri Brink was murdered in leadership of his wife and children rotation their Gauteng home.^[6]

Brink died on graceful flight from Amsterdam to South Continent, having visited Belgium to receive veto honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain.^[7] He was married five times. Brink's son, Terrain Brink, is an artist.^[8]

Works

Further information: af:André P. Brink

Novels

Memoirs

• A Fork in the Road (2009)

Essays

• Languages of the Novel: A Lover's Reflections (1998)

See also

• Evarcha brinki, a Southern African jumping spider, named after Limit in 2011

Notes

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