Breytenbach, Breyten
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- Poet Name
- Breytenbach, Breyten
- Given Name
- Breyten
- Last Name
- Breytenbach
- Date of Birth
- 16 September 1939
- Biography
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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
- Biography Sources
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“_Breyten Breytenbach_.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar. 2022, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach>. Accessed 8 Apr. 2022.
“_Anti-Apartheid Poet Breyten Breytenbach Wins Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2017_.” Culture.pl, <https://culture.pl/en/article/anti-apartheid-poet-breyten-breytenbach-wins-zbigniew-herbert-international-literary-award-2017>. Accessed 8 Apr. 2022.
_Dictionary of African Biography_. Eds. Gates, Henry Louis, Emmanuel Akyeampong, and Steven J. Niven. : Oxford University Press, . Oxford Reference. Accessed 8 Apr. 2022.
Breytenbach, Breyten, and Susie Linfield. “_An Interview with Breyten Breytenbach._” Salmagundi, no. 128/129, 2000, pp. 249–74, <http://www.jstor.org/stable/40549282>. Accessed 8 Apr. 2022. - News Items
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Ironies of exile: Post-colonial homelessness and the anticlimax of return
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Global locals
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Ironies of exile
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Escaping from the laager
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Pariah's path
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Speaking of the loss of voice
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NEW FROM FABER AND FABER
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The periodicals: Ariel
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OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Harvard University Press
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Learning to walk by walking
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Salmagundi
- Events
- Arrests under the Terrorism Act
- Arrest of Breyten Breytenbach
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- Release of Breyten Breytenbach
- Trial of Breyten Breytenbach
- International Conference on Human Rights
- Works
- What Next? Surviving the twenty-first century
- Footscript (Voetskrif)
- The Rift: The exile experience of South Africans
- The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse
- The Iron Cow Must Sweat
- Black Writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation
- Close Relationships
- Suttner, Raymond
- Steyn, Mark
- Rumsfeld, Donald
- Coker, Christopher
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- Watson, Stephen
- Mulgrew, Nick
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- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Yutar, Percy
- Bloem, Trevor
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- Mitterrand, François
- Hornsby, Michael
- Mandela, Nelson
- Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise
- Fugard, Sheila Meiring
- Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'
- Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'
- van den Heever, Toon
- Blum, Peter
- Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'
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- Plomer, William
- Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'
- Butler, Guy
- Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'
- Madge, Charles Henry
- Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho
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- Driver, Charles Jonathan 'Jonty'
- Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'
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- Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus
- Small, Adam
- Wright, David
- Haresnape, Geoffrey
- Campbell, Roy
- Rousseau, Ina
- Marechera, Dambudzo
- Cope, Robert Knox 'Jack'
- Clouts, Sydney
- Rive, Richard
- Coetzee, John Maxwell ' -J. M. '
- Adams, Perseus 'Peter Robert Charles'
- Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'
- Krige, Uys
- van Heerden, Ernst
- Awoonor-Williams, George Kofi Nyidevu 'Kofi Awoonor'
- MacNab, Roy
- Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni
- Celliers, Jan
- Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
- Horn, Peter Rudolf Gisela
- Hamilton, William Robert 'W. R.'
- Watson, Stephen
- Place of Birth
- South Africa, Cape Province, Bonnievale
- Spatial Coverage
- Bonnievale
- Region
- Southern Africa
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