Breyten Breytenbach

1939 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: Sestigers

country of citizenship: South Africa, France

native language: Afrikaans

languages spoken, written or signed: Afrikaans, English

educated at: University of Cape Town, Michaelis School of Fine Art

occupation: poet, writer, painter, essayist, lithographer

award received: Reina Prinsen Geerligs prize, Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt award, Eenmalige bijzondere prijs van de Jan Campert-stichting, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Alan Paton Award, Van Looy Prize

Breyten Breytenbach (; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet, and painter who 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. Breytenbach is now informally considered by Afrikaans-speakers as their poet laureate and is one of the most important living poets in Afrikaans literature. He also holds French citizenship. Source: Wikipedia (en)