André Brink (1935–2015)
Autor/a de A Dry White Season
Sobre l'autor
André Brink was born on May 29, 1935 in Vrede, South Africa. He studied English and Afrikaans at the University in Potchefstroom and comparative literature in Paris. He was a South African writer and educator. He became a part of a group of writers known as Die Sestigers upon returning to South mostra'n més Africa in the 1960s. The group aimed to broaden Afrikaner fiction by writing about sexual and moral matters and the failings of the traditional political system. His books included Rumors of Rain, Looking on Darkness, A Dry White Season, and States of Emergency. Some of his books were banned in South Africa. He became a professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Rhodes University and professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He has received the 1980 Martin Luther King Prize, the 1980 French Prix Medicis Etranger, and the 1982 Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice and nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature on several occasions. He died on February 6, 2015 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Sèrie
Obres de André Brink
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: To Live in or Leave South Africa (2010) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Pot-Pourri 3 exemplars
Die Kreef Raak Gewoond Daaraan 2 exemplars
Donkermaan 2 exemplars
Midi 2 exemplars
Ol 2 exemplars
De scherpe randen van het mozaïek 2 exemplars
Die Poësie van Breyten Breytenbach 2 exemplars
Inteendeel 2 exemplars
Latynse Reise 2 exemplars
Groot Verseboek Deel 3 1 exemplars
Die Muur Van Die Pes 1 exemplars
Donkermaan (Afrikaans Edition) 1 exemplars
Fado 1 exemplars
Groot verseboek Deel 3 1 exemplars
Gerugte Van Ren 1 exemplars
le mr de la peste 1 exemplars
Okamžik ve větru 1 exemplars
רגע ברוח 1 exemplars
Aspekte Van Die Nuwe Prosa 1 exemplars
Gerugte Van Ren 1 exemplars
Brink Andrè 1 exemplars
?n Oomblik In Die Wind 1 exemplars
Destabilizing Shakespeare 1 exemplars
Die Muur Van Die Pes 1 exemplars
Fado 1 exemplars
Houd-den-bek 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Windroos: Verhale deur 10 Sestigers — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Over X-jes, de zandloper en de herenbobbel. Een handleiding tot de kunsten voor Maarten Asscher (1998) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Brink, André Philippus
- Data de naixement
- 1935-05-29
- Data de defunció
- 2015-02-06
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Zuid-Afrika
- Lloc de naixement
- Vrede, Zuid-Afrika
- Lloc de defunció
- tijdens vlucht van Amsterdam naar Kaapstad
- Llocs de residència
- Vrede, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Jagersfontein, South Africa
Brits, South Africa
Douglas, South Africa
Sabie, South Africa (mostra-les totes 7)
Lydenburg, South Africa - Educació
- Potchefstroom University
The Sorbonne, Paris, France
Lydenburg High School - Professions
- emeritus professor
novelist - Relacions
- Brink, Elsabe (sister)
- Organitzacions
- University of Cape Town
Sestiger movement - Premis i honors
- Monismanien Prize (1992)
Order of Ikhamanga
South African Literary Award Lifetime Achievement (2006) - Agent
- Liepman Agency
- Biografia breu
- André Brink, a major South African writer whose work has shaken conscience and culture in Afrikanerdom, contributed significantly to the cause against apartheid. With democracy, he now sees no further need to be overtly political in his writing and feels a new freedom to write whatever he feels like.
Membres
Converses
Philida by André Brink a Booker Prize (agost 2012)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 95
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 4,408
- Popularitat
- #5,683
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 106
- ISBN
- 460
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 15
This is my third Brink novel and I'll read more, but go to his top reviewed titles next- I selected this one as I was curious about the title.… (més)