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André Brink

1935 - 2015

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André Philippus Brink (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans dissident intellectual and literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikaner people to world literature, to use the Afrikaans language to speak out against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party-controlled government, and also to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist literature, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Brink is the 1,668th most popular writer (up from 1,943rd in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 36th in 2019) and the 5th most popular South African Writer.

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Among writers, André Brink ranks 1,668 out of 7,302. Before him are Eino Leino, Thomas Keneally, György Konrád, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jean Bodel, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. After him are Marquis de Custine, Antonio de Nebrija, Miklós Zrínyi, Arnaldur Indriðason, Marcel Achard, and Thoinot Arbeau.

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Among people born in 1935, André Brink ranks 102. Before him are Yakov Sinai, Hillel Furstenberg, Masahito, Prince Hitachi, Robert Silverberg, Thomas Keneally, and Luis del Sol. After him are Valeri Kubasov, Mohamed Choukri, Ron Paul, Dharmendra, Justin Francis Rigali, and Marina Doria. Among people deceased in 2015, André Brink ranks 93. Before him are Jin Youzhi, Árpád Göncz, Tadahiko Ueda, Geraldine McEwan, Dinkha IV, and Rose Francine Rogombé. After him are Patrick Macnee, Akiyuki Nosaka, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Cabu, Ornette Coleman, and Satoru Iwata.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, André Brink ranks 45 out of 454. Before him are Jan Smuts (1870), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Glynis Johns (1923), Abba Eban (1915), George F. R. Ellis (1939), and Reggie Walker (1889). After him are Nico Diederichs (1903), Eben Dönges (1898), Basil Rathbone (1892), Tom Naudé (1889), Louis Raymond (1895), and Arnold Vosloo (1962).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, André Brink ranks 5. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), and Peter Abrahams (1919). After him are Laurence Oliphant (1829), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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