André Brink

Susan Kossew (Monash University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.2.3.03: South Africa and other Southern Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 29 May 1935
Activity 1961-ongoing

Places

Born in South Africa
Active in South Africa

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Teacher/ Professor

Other

Playwright / Dramatist
Translator

Resources

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André Philippus Brink is one of South Africa’s most distinguished and prolific writers of Afrikaner origin who has achieved an international reputation for his novels. He has published 21 novels in Afrikaans and English since the early 1960s and these have been translated into over 30 different languages, attesting to the popularity of his work throughout the world. In addition to his novels, he has published three collections of essays on literature (including

Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege

(1983),

Reinventing a Continent: Writing and Politics in South Africa

(1996) and

The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino

(1998); has co-edited a literary anthology with J. M. Coetzee entitled

A Land Apart: A South African Reader

in 1986; and has written plays, literary…

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Citation: Kossew, Susan. "André Brink". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 February 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5813, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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