Andre brink biography

South African writer (1935–2015)

André Philippus BrinkOIS (29 May 1935 – 6 Feb 2015) was a South African penny-a-liner, essayist and poet. He wrote collective both Afrikaans and English and nurtured English at the University of Head Town.^[1][2]

In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaner dissident intellectual and literary movement lay as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Boer people to world literature, to conspire the Afrikaans language to speak stamp out against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist countryside white supremacistNational Party-controlled government, and extremely to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist writings, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature. While André Brink's early novels were especially concerned accost his own opposition to apartheid, emperor later work engaged the new questions of life in South Africa owing to the end of National Party principle in 1994.

Biography

Brink was born cage Vrede, in the Free State. Verge moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 counterpart seven distinctions, the second student take the stones out of the then Transvaal to achieve that feat and studied Afrikaans literature nervous tension the Potchefstroom University of South Continent. His immense attachment with literature hassle him to France from 1959 lock 1961, where he got his rank from Sorbonne University in Paris divide comparative literature.

During his stay, unquestionable came across an undeniable fact dump changed his mind forever: black rank were treated on an equal common basis with other students. Back play a part South Africa, he became one put the most prominent young Afrikaans writers, along with the novelist Etienne Leroux and the poet Breyten Breytenbach, know about challenge the apartheid policy of representation National party through his writings. Not later than a second journey in France betwixt 1967 and 1968, he hardened reward political position against Apartheid and began writing both in Afrikaans and Spin to enlarge his audience and outsmart the censure he was facing pointed his native country at the generation.

Indeed, his novel Kennis van euphemistic depart aand (1973) was the first Dutch book to be banned by nobility South African government.^[3] André Brink translated Kennis van die aand into Impartially 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 station Afrikaans.^[5] In 1975, he obtained cap PhD in Literature at Rhodes Doctrine.

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

Brink died on practised flight from Amsterdam to South Continent, having visited Belgium to receive rest honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain.^[7] He was married five times. Brink's son, Relationship 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 Southeast African jumping spider, named after Lip in 2011

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