Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ...

Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale in the Western Cape, approximately 180km from Cape Town and 100km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas. He studied fine arts at the University of Cape Town and became a committed opponent against the long held policy of apartheid. He left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s. When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, he was not allowed to return. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and The Immorality Act (1950) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race. The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. ... City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Province Western Cape Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ... The marker at Cape Agulhas The lighthouse which warned many ships of the cape Cape Agulhas is the geographic southern tip of the African continent. ... Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic. ... 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. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Apartheid (ap-ar-taet) is the policy and the system of laws implemented and enforced by White minority governments in South Africa from 1948 till 1990; and by extension any legally sanctioned system of racial segregation. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Immorality Act was one of the most controversial legislative acts of South African Apartheid. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that Scientific racism be merged into this article or section. ...

In France he was a founder member of Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile. On an illegal trip to South Africa in 1975 he was betrayed, arrested and sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for high treason: his work "The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist" describes aspects of his imprisonment. Released in 1982 as a result of massive international intervention he returned to Paris and obtained French citizenship. Exile is a form of punishment. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. ... Under English, and later British law, high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Sovereign. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He currently divides his time between Europe, Africa, and the United States. He joined the University of Cape Town as a visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities (from January 2000) and is also involved with the Gorée Institute in Dakar (Senegal) and with New York University. World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ...

The work of Breytenbach includes numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and essays, many of which are in Afrikaans, many translated from Afrikaans to English, and many published originally in English. He is also known for his works of pictorial arts. Exhibitions of his paintings and prints were shown in numerous cities around the world including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, Brussels, Edinburgh and New York. Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Coordinates 52°22′N 4°54′E Website www. ... The Old town in Stockholm from the air â–¶(?) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Flemish: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ), Dùn Èideann () in Scottish Gaelic, is the second-largest city in Scotland and its capital city. ...

Breytenbach was described as the only example of a "nice South African" in the song "I've Never Met A Nice South African". The song was written by John Lloyd for the satirical British TV series, Spitting Image. John Lloyd (born 1951 in Dover, England; birth name: John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd), British comedy writer and producer. ... Spitting Image was a satirical puppet-show that ran on Britains ITV Network from 1984 to 1996. ...

He is the brother of Jan Breytenbach, founder of the South African Special Forces. Colonel Jan Breytenbach Jan Breytenbach is the founding commander of 1-Reconnaissance Commando (1-Recce) - the forerunner of the present Special Forces Brigade of the SANDF and the equivalent of the British SAS (Special Air Service) in South Africa. ... Special Forces insignia - the Compass Rose Official force name South African Special Forces Nickname Recces Branch Joint Operations Chain of Command Chief of Joint Operations, SANDF Description South Africas main Special Operations Force Specializations Conducting Airborne operations, conducting direct action operations, conducting raids, counter-terrorism, underwater reconnaissance, infiltrating and...

Poetry in English

• The Iron Cow Must Sweat (Die ysterkoei moet sweet), Johannesburg, 1964
• The House of the Deaf (Die huis van die dowe), Cape Town, 1967
• Gangrene (Kouevuur), Cape Town, 1969
• Lotus, Cape Town, 1970
• The Remains (Oorblyfsels), Cape Town, 1970
• Scrit. Painting Blue a sinking Ship. (Skryt. Om `n sinkende skip blou te verf), Amsterdam, 1972
• In Other Words (Met ander woorde), Cape Town, 1973
• Foot Writing (Voetskrif), Johannesburg, 1976
• Sinking Ship Blues, Toronto 1977
• And Death White as Words. An Anthology, London, 1978
• In Africa even the flies are happy, London, 1978
• Flower Writing (Blomskryf), Emmarentia, 1979 (Selected poems)
• Eclipse (Eklips), Emmarentia, 1983
• Buffalo Bill, Emmarentia, 1984
• Living Death (Lewendood), Emmarentia, 1985
• Judas Eye, London - New York, 1989
• As Like (Soos die so), Emmarentia, 1990
• Nine Landscapes of our Times Bequeathed to a Beloved (Nege landskappe van ons tye bemaak aan `n beminde), Groenkloof, 1993
• The Handful of Feathers (Die hand vol vere), Cape Town, 1995 (Selected poems)
• The Remains. An Elegy (Oorblyfsels. ´n Roudig), Cape Town, 1997
• Paper Flower (Papierblom), Cape Town, 1998
• Lady One, Cape Town, 2000 (Selected love poems)
• Iron Cow Blues (Ysterkoei-blues), Cape Town, 2001 (Collected poems 1964-1975)
• Lady One: Of Love and other Poems, New York, 2002

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Prose in English

• Catastrophes (Katastrofes), Johannesburg, 1964 (Stories)
• To Fly (Om te vlieg), Cape Town, 1971 (Novel)
• The Tree Behind the Moon (De boom achter de maan), Amsterdam, 1974 (Stories)
• The Anthill Bloats … (Die miernes swell op …), Emmarentia, 1980 (Stories)
• A Season in Paradise (Een seizoen in het paradijs), Amsterdam - New York - London, 1980 (Novel, uncensored edition)
• Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel, London - New York, 1983
• The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, London - New York, 1983
• Mirror Death (Spiegeldood), Amsterdam, 1984 (Stories)
• End Papers, London, 1985 (Essays)
• Memory of Snow and of Dust, London - New York, 1987 (Novel)
• Book. Part One (Boek. Deel een), Emmarentia, 1987 (Essays)
• All One Horse. Fiction and Images, London, 1989
• Sweet Heart (Hart-Lam), Emmarentia, 1991 (Essays)
• Return to Paradise. An African journal, London - New York, 1992 (which won the Alan Paton Award)
• The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, London - New York, 1996 (Essays)
• Dog Heart. A travel memoir, Cape Town, 1998
• Word Work (Woordwerk), Cape Town, 1999

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External links

• Stellenbosch Writers
• Breyten Breytenbach, Professor of Creative Writing
• NEPAD and the New African Dawn (Keynote Address by Breyten Breytenbach)
• Open letter to General Ariel Sharon (by Breyten Breytenbach)
• http://www.goreeinstitute.org/