André Philippus Brink (born on 29 May 1935 in Vrede) is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... See also: 1934 in South Africa, other events of 1935, 1936 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. ... Vrede is town in the Free State Province of South Africa that is the agricultural hub of a 10,000ha region. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The University of Cape Town is a major tertiary education institution in Cape Town, South Africa, located on the Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devils Peak. ...

In the 1960s, he and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends. His novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, or literature composed in English by writers who are not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Initially, André Brink's oeuvre was mainly concerned with the apartheid policy. His more recent work is generally regarded as postcolonial. A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ...

Works

• The Ambassador
• Looking on Darnkness
• An Instant in the Wind
• Rumours of Rain
• A Dry White Season
• A Chain of Voices
• The Wall of the Plague
• States of Emergency
• An Act of Terror
• The First Life of Adamastor (1993)
• On the Contrary
• Imaginings of Sand
• Devil's Valley
• The Rights of Desire
• Anderkant die Stilte (2002), translated as The Other Side of Silence

External Links

• 1985 audio interview of Andre Brink, RealAudio
• Andre Brink at www.contemporarywriters.com
• André Brink at the Internet Book List