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Breyten Breytenbach

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Breyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach in 1995
Breytenbach in 1995
Born 16 September 1939

Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa
Died 24 November 2024 (aged 85)

Paris, France
Occupation Novelist, essayist, poet, painter
Language Afrikaans, English
Citizenship
  • South Africa
  • France (since 1982)
Alma mater University of Cape Town
Notable awards
  • Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
  • Allen Paton Award for Literature
  • Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity
Spouse Yolande
Relatives Jan Breytenbach (brother)

Cloete Breytenbach (brother)

Breyten Breytenbach ((6 September 1939 – 24 November 2024) wis a Sooth African-Frainsh screiver, poyet, an penter. He becam internaitional kenspeckle as a dissident poyet an vocal creetic o Sooth Africae unner apartheid, an as a political prisoner o the National Party-wiced South African Government. He is forby kent as a foonin memmer o the Sestigers, a dissident literar muivement, an wis ane o the heid poyets in Afrikaans literature.

Honours and awards

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French honours

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Literary awards

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  • CNA Award (5 times),[4] for Die huis van die dowe (1968), Kouevuur (1969), Lotus (1970), YK (1983), and Memory of snow and dust (1989)[5]
  • 1965: APB Prize[4][6] for Die ysterkoei moet sweet and Katastrofes[5]
  • 1968: Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award[4] for Sooth Africae, for Die huis van die dowe[5]
  • 1972: Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Prize [nl], for Lotus[5]
  • 1984, 1999, 2008, & 2010: Hertzog Prize[4][6][5] He refuised tae accept the 1984 prize (for Yk).[5]
  • 1982: Van der Hoogt Prize[7][4][8] for Skryt[6]
  • 1985: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, for Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel[9]
  • 1986: Rapport Literature Prize, worth R 15,000 (a major prize)[10][4][11]
  • 1994: Alan Paton Award, for Return to Paradise [12]
  • 2007: University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, for "Die windvanger"[5]
  • 2007: W.A. Hofmeyr Prize, for "Die windvanger"[5]
  • 2007: Hertzog Prize, for "Die windvanger"[5]
  • 2010: Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity,[7] for Outre Voix/Voice Over, the French translation of Oorblyfsel/Voice Over: 'n roudig[5]
  • 2010: Max Jacob Prize [fr], for Outre Voix/Voice Over[6]
  • 2017: Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award[13][7]
  • Jan Campert Prize,[4] special prize[6]
  • Jacobus van Looy Prize (for literature and art)[4]
  • Perskor Prize, for Voetskrif[6][5]
  • International Publishers Prize, special prize[6]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Breyten Breytenbach, writer who challenged apartheid, dies at 85". France 24. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Breyten Breytenbach, a writer who challenged apartheid, dies at the age of 85". Agathequelquejay. 25 November 2024. Archived frae the original on 27 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Le peintre et poète sud-africain Breyten Breytenbach est mort". RFI (in French). 24 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Breyten Breytenbach". NYU: Arts & Science. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Breyten Breytenbach". Helgaard Steyn-Pryse. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Breuer, Rosemarie (2014). "Breyten Breytenbach". Stellenbosch Writers. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 AFP (24 November 2024). "S.Africa's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activist". Yahoo News. Archived frae the original on 25 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  8. "S.Africa's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activist". France 24. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  9. "1985: Fiction: Mouroir". 1985.
  10. "Breyten Breytenbach". South African History Online. Retrieved 30 Julie 2014. Produced 17 February 2011; Last Updated 20 September 2024
  11. Breytenbach, B. (2015). Parole:. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-77022-917-4. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  12. "Previous winners of the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize". The Times. 4 Juin 2007. Archived frae the original on 26 Februar 2009.
  13. "Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award 2017". Archived frae the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2018.