André Brink (1935–2015)
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André Brink was born on May 29, 1935 in Vrede, South Africa. He studied English and Afrikaans at the University in Potchefstroom and comparative literature in Paris. He was a South African writer and educator. He became a part of a group of writers known as Die Sestigers upon returning to South visa mer Africa in the 1960s. The group aimed to broaden Afrikaner fiction by writing about sexual and moral matters and the failings of the traditional political system. His books included Rumors of Rain, Looking on Darkness, A Dry White Season, and States of Emergency. Some of his books were banned in South Africa. He became a professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Rhodes University and professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He has received the 1980 Martin Luther King Prize, the 1980 French Prix Medicis Etranger, and the 1982 Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice and nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature on several occasions. He died on February 6, 2015 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
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Verk av André Brink
Det kom en stormvind : levnadsteckning över en berömd rebell, soldat, resenär, upptäcktsresande,… (1993) 118 exemplar
Pot-Pourri 3 exemplar
Die Kreef Raak Gewoond Daaraan 2 exemplar
Donkermaan 2 exemplar
Midi 2 exemplar
Ol 2 exemplar
De scherpe randen van het mozaïek 2 exemplar
Die Poësie van Breyten Breytenbach 2 exemplar
Inteendeel 2 exemplar
Latynse Reise 2 exemplar
Groot Verseboek Deel 3 1 exemplar
Die Muur Van Die Pes 1 exemplar
Donkermaan (Afrikaans Edition) 1 exemplar
Fado 1 exemplar
Groot verseboek Deel 3 1 exemplar
Gerugte Van Ren 1 exemplar
le mr de la peste 1 exemplar
Okamžik ve větru 1 exemplar
רגע ברוח 1 exemplar
Aspekte Van Die Nuwe Prosa 1 exemplar
Gerugte Van Ren 1 exemplar
Brink Andrè 1 exemplar
?n Oomblik In Die Wind 1 exemplar
Destabilizing Shakespeare 1 exemplar
Die Muur Van Die Pes 1 exemplar
Fado 1 exemplar
Houd-den-bek 1 exemplar
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Windroos: Verhale deur 10 Sestigers — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Over X-jes, de zandloper en de herenbobbel. Een handleiding tot de kunsten voor Maarten Asscher (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Brink, André Philippus
- Födelsedag
- 1935-05-29
- Avled
- 2015-02-06
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Zuid-Afrika
- Födelseort
- Vrede, Zuid-Afrika
- Dödsort
- tijdens vlucht van Amsterdam naar Kaapstad
- Bostadsorter
- Vrede, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Jagersfontein, South Africa
Brits, South Africa
Douglas, South Africa
Sabie, South Africa (visa alla 7)
Lydenburg, South Africa - Utbildning
- Potchefstroom University
The Sorbonne, Paris, France
Lydenburg High School - Yrken
- emeritus professor
novelist - Relationer
- Brink, Elsabe (sister)
- Organisationer
- University of Cape Town
Sestiger movement - Priser och utmärkelser
- Monismanien Prize (1992)
Order of Ikhamanga
South African Literary Award Lifetime Achievement (2006) - Agent
- Liepman Agency
- Kort biografi
- André Brink, a major South African writer whose work has shaken conscience and culture in Afrikanerdom, contributed significantly to the cause against apartheid. With democracy, he now sees no further need to be overtly political in his writing and feels a new freedom to write whatever he feels like.
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Philida by André Brink i Booker Prize (augusti 2012)
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