Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach

male, 70 years old
Anti-Apartheid activist, Afrikaans-language writer, afrikaans, fine arts, high treason, dakar…writer
Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. Breyten Breytenbach was born in...
Marlene van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk

female, 55 years old
Afrikaans-language writer, caledon, Unisa, Dutch language, Western Cape, University of Zululand…writer, afrikaans
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel "Triomf". Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor...
André Brink

André Brink

male, 74 years old
South African, writer, Anti-Apartheid activist, Afrikaner, apartheid, University of Cape Town academic…Afrikaans-language writer
André Philippus Brink was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government. Interestingly, Brink writes his works s...

C.M. van den Heever

male, deceased (1957)
poet, South African, Afrikaner, concentration camp, afrikaans, somer…Afrikaans-language writer
Christiaan Maurits van den Heever, almost universally known C.M. van den Heever (born February 27, 1902 in the concentration camp near Norvalspont...
Dan Roodt

Dan Roodt

male, 52 years old
South African, writer, afrikaans, Afrikaans-language writer
Dan Roodt is an Afrikaans-speaking writer and activist.
Karel Schoeman

Karel Schoeman

male
Afrikaans literature, Afrikaans-language writer, novelist, South African, afrikaans
Karel Schoeman is a South African novelist, historian, translator and man of letters. Born 26 October 1939 in Trompsburg, South Africa. The author...