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Breyten Breytenbach

1939 - 2024

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Breyten Breytenbach (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbrəitən ˈbrəitənbaχ]; 16 September 1939 – 24 November 2024) was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party–led South African Government. He was also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important poets in Afrikaans literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Breyten Breytenbach is the 3,091st most popular writer (up from 4,333rd in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 89th in 2019) and the 7th most popular South African Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 3,091 out of 7,302. Before him are Elmore Leonard, Samuel Smiles, Antoninus Liberalis, Dodie Smith, Victoria Benedictsson, and Can Xue. After him are Howard Fast, Alexey Troitsky, John Edward Williams, Laza Kostić, Johann Heinrich Voss, and Mukaghali Makatayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 230. Before him are A. R. Penck, Eugenio Dal Corso, Miroslav Cerar, Viktor Sadovnichiy, John Sculley, and Viorica Viscopoleanu. After him are Branko Kostić, John Badham, Judy Collins, Susannah York, Concha Velasco, and John Neumeier. Among people deceased in 2024, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 215. Before him are Wolfgang Rihm, Mykhaylo Fomenko, James Kottak, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Eugenio Dal Corso, and Stefan Abadzhiev. After him are Nabil Elaraby, Yvonne Furneaux, Kelvin Felix, Albert S. Ruddy, Carolyn Schuler, and Miguel Ángel González Suárez.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 73 out of 454. Before him are Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Dave Matthews (1967), Zindzi Mandela (1960), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), and Louisa Bolus (1877). After him are Cyril Cusack (1910), Ronald Harwood (1934), Oliver Tambo (1917), Piet Joubert (1834), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), and Gordon Murray (1946).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 7. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), and Laurence Oliphant (1829). After him are Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), Deon Meyer (1958), and Gcina Mhlophe (1958).

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