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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Breytenbach, Breyten
Biography
France, South Africa
Birth date: 1939-09-16
Birth location:
Bonnievale,
South Africa
Born in South Africa in 1939, Breyten Breytenbach was a poet and activist known for his dissent against South African apartheid. Breytenbach was imprisoned in South Africa in 1975 for high treason. He was released in 1982 and left for Paris, where he received French citizenship. In 2017, he was awarded the Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach
Education
- University of Cape Town
News Items (15)
- A garbled message (1990-05-18) | Poet
- Ironies of exile: Post-colonial homelessness and the anticlimax of return (1994-04-01) | Poet
- More arrested in South Africa (1975-09-17) | Poet
- Elysee hosts stars of human rights (1985-06-01) | Poet
- Jailed writer offered to work for police (1977-07-13) | Poet
- Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach (1984-04-26) | Poet
- Why South Africa put its leading Afrikaans poet on trial (1975-11-24) | Poet
- Jailed poet wins South African literary award (1977-03-03) | Poet
- Nine years jail for Afrikaans poet (1975-11-27) | Poet
- Poet tells court of 'walled pit' in prison (1977-07-07) | Poet
- Poet fights apartheid with his pen (1982-12-07) | Poet
- Afrikaans poet released (1982-12-06) | Poet
- South African poet faces the death penalty (1975-11-11) | Poet
- Global locals (2008-12-05) | Poet
- Lost for Words (2004-05-08) | Poet
Events (6)
Related Works (9)
- The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse (1989) (Poet)
- Black Writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation (1989) (Mentioned Poet)
- The Rift: The exile experience of South Africans (1994) (Mentioned Poet)
- What Next? Surviving the twenty-first century (2009) (Mentioned Poet)
- What Next? Surviving the twenty-first century (2009) (Work Author)
- The Iron Cow Must Sweat (1974) (Poet)
- The Iron Cow Must Sweat (1974) (Work Author)
- Footscript (Voetskrif) (1976) (Poet)
- Footscript (Voetskrif) (1976) (Work Author)
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- Campbell, Roy (4)
- Livingstone, Douglas (3)
- Cope, Robert Knox 'Jack' (3)
- Horn, Peter Rudolf Gisela (3)
- Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho (3)
- Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni (3)
- U Tam'si, Tchicaya (2)
- Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde' (2)
- Awoonor-Williams, George Kofi Nyidevu 'Kofi Awoonor' (2)
- Marechera, Dambudzo (2)
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- Blum, Peter (2)
- Clouts, Sydney (1)
- Hambidge, Joan 'Helene' (1)
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