Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach
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 Breytenbach in 1995
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| 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 |
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| Alma mater | University of Cape Town |
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| 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
[eedit | eedit soorce]French honours
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur[1][2][3]
- Commandeur des Arts et Lettres (France's top cultural award)[1][2][3]
Literary awards
[eedit | eedit soorce]- 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, 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, 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
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b "Breyten Breytenbach, writer who challenged apartheid, dies at 85". France 24. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ a b "Breyten Breytenbach, a writer who challenged apartheid, dies at the age of 85". Agathequelquejay. 25 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ a b "Le peintre et poète sud-africain Breyten Breytenbach est mort". RFI (in French). 24 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h "Breyten Breytenbach". NYU: Arts & Science. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k "Breyten Breytenbach". Helgaard Steyn-Pryse. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Breuer, Rosemarie (2014). "Breyten Breytenbach". Stellenbosch Writers. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ a b c AFP (24 November 2024). "S.Africa's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activist". Yahoo News. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- ↑ "S.Africa's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activist". France 24. 24 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ "1985: Fiction: Mouroir". 1985.
- ↑ "Breyten Breytenbach". South African History Online. Retrieved 30 Julie 2014.
Produced 17 February 2011; Last Updated 20 September 2024
- ↑ Breytenbach, B. (2015). Parole:. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-77022-917-4. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award 2017". Archived frae the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2018.