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Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party–led South African Government. He was also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important poets in Afrikaans liter…
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culture · South African writer and painter (1939–2024) · poet · writer · painter · essayist · lithographer · political activist · visual artist · anti-apartheid activist · also Breyten Breytenbach, Breytenbach
Born 16 September 1939 · Died 24 November 2024 · Q364207
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 5 entries
Yahoo: Breyten Breytenbach, dissident Afrikaner writer imprisoned for undercover anti-apartheid operations
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The Africa Report: South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach dies
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Yahoo: South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85
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News24: Writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, 85, has died
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Died 2024-11-24.
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2021· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Breyten Breytenbach
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2020· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Breyten Breytenbach and Complete Book Reviews
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2017).
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culture.pl: Anti-Apartheid Poet Breyten Breytenbach Wins Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2017
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2013· 1 entry
Breytenbach became the curator of the Poetry Festival in Stellenbosch, near Cape Town
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2010· 1 entry
KCRW: Breyten Breytenbach on His Literature, Anti-Apartheid Activism
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2002· 1 entry
Saying that Israel was committing crimes against the Palestinians, and "A viable state cannot be built on the expulsion of another people who have as much claim to that territory as you have"
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Van Looy Prize (1995).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Alan Paton Award (1994).
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Breytenbach became a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town in the Graduate School of Humanities in January 2000
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1987· 1 entry
That became known as the Dakar Conference, between exiled leaders of the ANC and a group of liberal South Africans, mostly Afrikaners, from all walks of life
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Published The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Eenmalige bijzondere prijs van de Jan Campert-stichting (1982).
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1975· 1 entry
On a false passport with the intention of helping black Africans organise trade unions, and to recruit members of Okhela, Breytenbach was arrested
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1973· 1 entry
A special visa was granted to the couple to allow them to travel to South Africa for a writers' congress at the University of Cape Town
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt award (1972).
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Was dedicated "to the people of South Africa, denied citizenship in their own country"
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Reina Prinsen Geerligs prize (1968).
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1962· 1 entry
Breytenbach met and married the daughter of the South Vietnamese ambassador to France, Yolande Ngo Thi Hoang Lien
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1961· 1 entry
And participated in protests against the exclusion of black youth from educational pathways
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-09-16.
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