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Poet Name: Brutus, Dennis Vincent
Given Name: Dennis Vincent
Last Name: Brutus
Date of Birth: 28 November 1924
Biography: Dennis Brutus , born in Salisbury Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), was a poet and anti-apartheid activist most known for his vocal opposition to South Africa's inclusion in the Olympics. Brutus protested the unfair and racist policies of the South African government in refusing to allow nonwhite athletes to participate in international competitions and called for the global community to boycott South Africa's participation. Brutus co-founded the organization SANROC (South African Non-Racial Olympics Committee) in 1962. Brutus was "banned" from South Africa and imprisoned once in 1963; he was barred from publishing in South Africa and lived in exile until 1990.

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Education: University of the Witwatersrand
News Items: Domestic Situations: Exhibitions and Lectures; After indignation, what?; Exhibitions and Lectures; Heinemann; 18-Month Sentence on Brutus; 19 nations join in Olympics protest; S Africa expelled from Olympics; In search of a subject; Inside track; Kidnap plot warning to cricket club; Anxiety in academe; Between the Acts; Sportsman and Poet; Literature as Symptom?; Heinemann; Literature as Symptom; Literature: Critics in each other's bad books; Nothing up South Africa's sleeves; African Writers Series reaches 100; Dissenters kept back; Protesters and police shape up for summit of bluff and bluster; Courting Trouble; The Lions: shots are fired; Proteas don't measure up; A Rhyme of Poets; Tennis Everyone?; Springbok stays the same colour; 1000 Makers of Sport; Apartheid and Sport: The Logic of Denis Howell's Approach; Apartheid's arch-enemy wins right of asylum; Monteal and Denver Chosen: North America scoops Olympics pool; Inside track; Mr Hain aims for Springboks' Achilles heel; Woolly; The big Red plot mystery; When only whites can play; If Arthur Ashe were African. . .; Behind the lines; The great South African sham; South Africa:'We quit Olympics if. . .'; S Africa's blue-pencil slips; Curb hinted in racial sports; Anti-apartheid sports campaigner; Vorster answers prison criticisms; Democracy in Africa; These tarnished Olympics; Things fall apart; Books of the 1960s-2; Boycott threat to Games; New drive to ease fate of apartheid prisoners; Catalogue of the ridiculous; Non-whites harbour deep suspicion; One World in Four Volumes; Agony of mind for black Americans; Competitors' dreams destroyed by their governments; US Negroes asked to boycott Games; Countries wait to see if they can compete; Cultural Studies; Things fall apart; Written in blood; Advertisement; THE COVENT GARDEN READINGS; Nicaraguan Bookfair; Riddles of destiny; Scorning the sonnet; Heinemann Educational Books; The New African
Events: apdp.event.000085; apdp.event.000014; apdp.event.000060; apdp.event.000100; apdp.event.000078; apdp.event.000091; apdp.event.000089; apdp.event.000092; apdp.event.000090; apdp.event.000004; apdp.event.000082; apdp.event.000077; apdp.event.000024; apdp.event.000088; apdp.event.000093; apdp.event.000072; apdp.event.000094; Boycott of British Commonwealth Games (SANROC); The Politics of Exile, Conference; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), February 1970, London; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1969, South Africa; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), May 1970, London; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1977, London; Race discrimination on Panorama, BBC programme; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1976, Montreal; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1971, London; Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1969, London; South Africa expelled from Olympics Games; Arrest and Imprisonment of Dennis Brutus; US Athletes boycott Olympics, with support from SANROC (Dennis Brutus); ICA Special Poetry Reading; Attempted Murder of Dennis Brutus; Boycott of Olympic Games, 1976, Canada; Boycott of Olympic Games, 1976, South Africa
Works: Selected Poems; Nocturnes; Satellites; Letters to Martha and other poems; Labyrinths and Paths of Thunder; A Simple Lust; Poems from Algiers; China Poems; The Second Round; Heavensgate; Sirens, Knuckles, Boots. Mbari Publications, 1963.; No Longer at Ease; Arrow of God; Limits; Understanding African Poetry: A study of Ten Poets; The Day Natal Took Off: A Satire; The Interpreters; Lenrie Peters: Poems; Classical and Byzantine and Oriental and African: The Penguin Companion to Literature; Stubborn Hope; Salutes and Censures; Letter to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison; Africa Talks Back: Interviews with Anglophone African authors; The Ordeal of the African Writer; The Voice
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Place of Birth: Zimbabwe, Salisbury
Spatial Coverage: Salisbury
Region: Southern Africa
Commentaries: Dennis Brutus; Race, Sports, and Poetry
Type: Poets in the News