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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 .
One of South Africa's most distinguished writers, André Brink was born in 1935. Poet, novelist, essayist and teacher, he began work as a University lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature in the 1960s.
May 25, 2024 · André Philippus Brink (born May 29, 1935, Vrede, South Africa—died February 6, 2015, in an airplane traveling from the Netherlands to South Africa) was a South African writer whose novels, which he wrote in Afrikaans and English versions, often criticized the South African government.
Feb 7, 2015 · André Brink, a towering South African literary presence for decades whose work in English and Afrikaans fell afoul of apartheid-era censors, died Friday, South African news reports said, citing...
André Brink was born in Vrede, South Africa. The author of several highly acclaimed novels, he is one of South Africa's most prominent writers. His novels include A Dry White Season, Imaginings of Sand, The Rights of Desire, The Other Side of Silence and Philida.
Feb 13, 2015 · Andre Brink made SA’s drama of oppression far more readable than either of South Africa’s Nobel laureates ever did or could, writes Leon de Kock.
May 24, 2017 · André Philippus Brink (b. 1935—d. 2015) is acclaimed as one of South Africa’s foremost writers. Internationally renowned novelist, playwright, scholar, critic, translator, travel writer, and editor, Brink was prolific and his oeuvre monumental: some twenty-six novels, many of them translated into thirty-five languages, more than fourteen ...
