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data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%AD" title="Բրեյթեն Բրեյթենբախ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բրեյթեն Բրեյթենբախ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AE" title="برايتن بريتنباخ – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="برايتن بريتنباخ" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Breyten Breytenbach" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach" title="Breyten Breytenbach – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Church_Street,_Pretoria_bombing" title="Church Street, Pretoria bombing">Church Street, Pretoria bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaal_uprising" title="Vaal uprising">Vaal uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Sinton_Secondary_School#Trojan_Horse_Incident" title="Alexander Sinton Secondary School">Trojan Horse Incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Council_of_Churches#1988_bombing_of_Khotso_House" title="South African Council of Churches">Khotso House bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Town_peace_march" title="Cape Town peace march">Cape Town peace march</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negotiations_to_end_apartheid_in_South_Africa" title="Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa">CODESA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Chris_Hani" title="Assassination of Chris Hani">Assassination of Chris Hani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_James_Church_massacre" title="Saint James Church massacre">Saint James Church massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Bophuthatswana_crisis" title="1994 Bophuthatswana crisis">1994 Bophuthatswana crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shell_House_massacre" title="Shell House massacre">Shell House massacre</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Category:Organisations_associated_with_apartheid" title="Category:Organisations associated with apartheid">Organisations</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">ANC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azanian_People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="Azanian People's Liberation Army">APLA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inkatha_Freedom_Party" title="Inkatha Freedom Party">IFP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging" title="Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging">AWB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanke_Bevrydingsbeweging" title="Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging">BBB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sash" title="Black Sash">Black Sash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_Cooperation_Bureau" title="Civil Cooperation Bureau">CCB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party of South Africa">Conservative Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Democratic Party (South Africa)">DP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/End_Conscription_Campaign" title="End Conscription Campaign">ECC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federation_of_South_African_Trade_Unions" title="Federation of South African Trade Unions">FOSATU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Progressive Party (South Africa)">PP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(South_Africa)" title="Reform Party (South Africa)">RP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Federal_Party" title="Progressive Federal Party">PFP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herstigte_Nasionale_Party" title="Herstigte Nasionale Party">HNP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Umkhonto we Sizwe">MK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Africanist_Congress_of_Azania" title="Pan Africanist Congress of Azania">PAC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Democratic_Front_(South_Africa)" title="United Democratic Front (South Africa)">UDF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afrikaner_Broederbond" title="Afrikaner Broederbond">Broederbond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_South_African_Trade_Unions" title="Congress of South African Trade Unions">COSATU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_Branch_(South_Africa)" title="Security Branch (South Africa)">Security Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Council_of_Churches" title="South African Council of Churches">SACC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Defence_Force" title="South African Defence Force">SADF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Indian_Congress" title="South African Indian Congress">SAIC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Musicians%27_Alliance" title="South African Musicians' Alliance">SAMA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Police" title="South African Police">SAP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">SACP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Security_Council" title="State Security Council">State Security Council</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:lavender;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">People</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vernon_Berrang%C3%A9" title="Vernon Berrangé">Vernon Berrangé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._W._Botha" title="P. W. Botha">P. W. Botha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Biko" title="Steve Biko">Steve Biko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangosuthu_Buthelezi" title="Mangosuthu Buthelezi">Mangosuthu Buthelezi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk" title="F. W. de Klerk">F. 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He became internationally well-known as a <a href="/wiki/Dissident" title="Dissident">dissident</a> poet and vocal critic of <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_under_apartheid" class="mw-redirect" title="South Africa under apartheid">South Africa under apartheid</a>, and as a <a href="/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner">political prisoner</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National Party</a>–led South African Government. He is also known as a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Sestigers" title="Sestigers">Sestigers</a>, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important living poets in <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans_literature" title="Afrikaans literature">Afrikaans literature</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Breyten Breytenbach was born on 16 September 1939 in <a href="/wiki/Bonnievale,_Western_Cape" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonnievale, Western Cape">Bonnievale</a>, South Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For secondary education, he attended Hoërskool Hugenote, in <a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Western_Cape" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington, Western Cape">Wellington, Western Cape</a>. He later attended the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cape_Town" title="University of Cape Town">University of Cape Town</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> studying <a href="/wiki/Fine_art" title="Fine art">fine arts</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Michaelis_School_of_Fine_Art" title="Michaelis School of Fine Art">Michaelis School of Fine Art</a><sup id="cite_ref-news24obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news24obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-strauss_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strauss-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Activism_and_imprisonment">Activism and imprisonment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Activism and imprisonment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Breytenbach was a <a href="/wiki/Political_dissent" title="Political dissent">political dissenter</a> against the ruling <a href="/wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)" title="National Party (South Africa)">National Party</a> and its <a href="/wiki/White_supremacist" class="mw-redirect" title="White supremacist">white supremacist</a> policy of <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a> in the early 1960s. He was a founding member of the dissident literary movement of <a href="/wiki/Afrikaners" title="Afrikaners">Afrikaner</a> writers, the <a href="/wiki/Sestigers" title="Sestigers">Sestigers</a><sup id="cite_ref-strauss_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strauss-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1961, and participated in protests against the exclusion of black youth from educational pathways.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He left South Africa and lived in Europe and <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> for some time.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcobit_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcobit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, France, he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, as a result of which he was not allowed to return. The then applicable <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_of_Mixed_Marriages_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act">Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act</a> of 1949 and <a href="/wiki/Immorality_Act" title="Immorality Act">Immorality Act</a> (1950) made it a criminal offence for a person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">race</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in 1973, a special visa was granted to the couple to allow them to travel to South Africa for a writers' congress at the University of Cape Town.<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Breytenbach was involved in the anti-apartheid movement throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, and joined the international organisation Okhela (meaning "spark"). He spoke out against the policy of apartheid at writers' forums and United Nations conferences.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After travelling to South Africa in 1975 on a false passport with the intention of helping black Africans organise <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">trade unions</a>, and to recruit members of Okhela,<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was arrested. At his trial at the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_South_Africa" title="Supreme Court of South Africa">Supreme Court</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pretoria" title="Pretoria">Pretoria</a> after being charged under the <a href="/wiki/Terrorism_Act,_1967" title="Terrorism Act, 1967">Terrorism Act 1967</a>, he pleaded guilty to entering South Africa to start a branch of Okhela, which was intended to be a branch of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> (ANC) for white people. He was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for <a href="/wiki/High_treason" class="mw-redirect" title="High treason">high treason</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first two in <a href="/wiki/Solitary_confinement" title="Solitary confinement">solitary confinement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Brink" title="André Brink">André Brink</a>, Breytenbach was retried in June 1977 on new and fanciful charges that, among other things, he had planned a submarine attack by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Maximum_Security_Prison,_Robben_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island">Robben Island prison</a> through the Okhela. In the end, the judge found him guilty only of having smuggled letters and poems out of jail for which he was fined $50.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was not physically assaulted, but the prison officials abused him verbally, and treated him cruelly, including after his mother's death.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt1983_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt1983-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in prison, he wrote <i>Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel</i> (published after his release, in 1983)<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. He revisited his prison experiences in <i>The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist</i> (1984), in which neither the narrator nor his confessor are given stable identities.<sup id="cite_ref-Saayman_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saayman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Breyten_Breytenbach,_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-4728_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1692" data-file-height="2336" /></a><figcaption>Breytenbach in 1983</figcaption></figure> <p>He served seven years<sup id="cite_ref-da_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-da-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was released in December 1982 as a result of international protests<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the intervention of the French president <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" title="François Mitterrand">François Mitterrand</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcobit_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcobit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Breytenbach returned to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life, after obtaining French citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 1993, he visited to the "<a href="/wiki/New_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="New South Africa">new South Africa</a>", and continued to travel there regularly,<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as spending time in the United States and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued to be "a critical observer and commentator on South African political and social issues".<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became a vocal critic of <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>'s government, and said that the ANC had turned into a "corrupt organisation".<sup id="cite_ref-bbcobit_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcobit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/1994_South_African_general_election" title="1994 South African general election">free elections</a> toppled the ruling National Party and ended apartheid in 1994, Breytenbach became a visiting professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cape_Town" title="University of Cape Town">University of Cape Town</a> in the Graduate School of Humanities in January 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a founding member and served as executive director of the <a href="/wiki/Gor%C3%A9e_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorée Institute">Gorée Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dakar" title="Dakar">Dakar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a>. This arose from an historic meeting in 1987 that became known as the <a href="/wiki/Dakar_Conference" title="Dakar Conference">Dakar Conference</a>, between exiled leaders of the ANC and a group of liberal South Africans, mostly Afrikaners, from all walks of life. This gathering, held to define a strategy for effective struggle against the apartheid regime, was one of many that opened the way for a negotiated end to apartheid in South Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A good friend of Breytenbach, <a href="/wiki/Frederik_van_Zyl_Slabbert" title="Frederik van Zyl Slabbert">Frederik van Zyl Slabbert</a>, also attended.<sup id="cite_ref-da_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-da-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Breytenbach later taught classes at the institute.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also campaigned against other injustices in the world. He wrote an open letter in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> to <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Sharon" title="Ariel Sharon">Ariel Sharon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Prime Minister of Israel">Prime Minister of Israel</a>, in 2002, saying that Israel was committing crimes against the Palestinians, and "A viable state cannot be built on the expulsion of another people who have as much claim to that territory as you have".<sup id="cite_ref-bbcobit_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcobit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Breytenbach has written poetry, novels, plays, and essays, mostly in Afrikaans. Many of his works have been translated into multiple languages.<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His first published work was <i>Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet</i> ("The Iron Cow Must Sweat") in 1964. It was regarded as groundbreaking in Afrikaans poetry, presenting "powerful and startling ideas... without the use of traditional rhythmic metres and attractive images".<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While in Paris, Breytenbach wrote several works about his experience as an immigrant. His work was at the time controversial in South Africa. His book <i>Skryt. Om 'n sinkende skip blou te verf</i> (<i>Scrit. Painting Blue a Sinking Ship</i>), published in the Netherlands in 1972, was dedicated "to the people of South Africa, denied citizenship in their own country". The book was banned from sale in South Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his imprisonment, Breytenbach wrote five volumes of poetry and English prose.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His prison writings included the poem "Ballade van ontroue bemindes" ("<a href="/wiki/Ballade_(forme_fixe)" title="Ballade (forme fixe)">Ballade</a> of Unfaithful Lovers"). Inspired by <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon" title="François Villon">François Villon</a>'s 15th-century "<a href="/wiki/Ballade_des_Dames_du_Temps_Jadis" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis">Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis</a>", Breytenbach compared Afrikaner dissidents <a href="/wiki/Peter_Blum" title="Peter Blum">Peter Blum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ingrid_Jonker" title="Ingrid Jonker">Ingrid Jonker</a>, and himself to unfaithful lovers, who had betrayed <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a> poetry by taking leave of it.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984, he published <i>The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schalkwyk_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schalkwyk-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Art">Art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Breyten_Breytenbach,_1995_-_21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_1995_-_21.jpg/220px-Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_1995_-_21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_1995_-_21.jpg/330px-Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_1995_-_21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_1995_-_21.jpg/440px-Breyten_Breytenbach%2C_1995_-_21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2325" data-file-height="3489" /></a><figcaption>Breytenbach with art works, 1995</figcaption></figure> <p>Breytenbach is also known for his paintings, which have been exhibited internationally in Amsterdam,<sup id="cite_ref-Saayman_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saayman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paris, New York City, Stockholm, and Hong Kong.<sup id="cite_ref-strauss_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strauss-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The works are often <a href="/wiki/Surrealism" title="Surrealism">surreal</a> in nature, featuring animal and human figures in captivity.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was inspired by <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Goya" title="Francisco Goya">Francisco Goya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch" title="Hieronymus Bosch">Hieronymus Bosch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October to November 2018, a solo exhibition of his recent work, along with some older works, entitled <i>The 81 ways of letting go a late self</i>, was held at the Stevenson Gallery in <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academia">Academia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Academia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2000 Breytenbach started a three-year stint as visiting professor in the departments of English and Drama in the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Cape Town.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also taught at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Natal" title="University of Natal">University of Natal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>, and in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was Global Distinguished Professor at NYU for over ten years.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_roles">Other roles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other roles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013 he became the curator of the Poetry Festival in <a href="/wiki/Stellenbosch" title="Stellenbosch">Stellenbosch</a>, near Cape Town.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life,_death,_and_legacy"><span id="Personal_life.2C_death.2C_and_legacy"></span>Personal life, death, and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life, death, and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg/220px-9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg/330px-9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg/440px-9.13.09BreytenBreytenbachByLuigiNovi1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="1170" /></a><figcaption>Breytenbach in 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1962, Breytenbach met and married the daughter of the <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnamese</a> ambassador to France, Yolande Ngo Thi Hoang Lien.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was born in Vietnam and raised in France,<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and carried Vietnamese citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had a daughter, Daphnée, and two grandsons.<sup id="cite_ref-news24obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news24obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also held French <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizenship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcobit_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcobit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He practised <a href="/wiki/Zen_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Zen Buddhism">Zen Buddhism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> in May 1983, Breytenbach said: "I'd never reject Afrikaans as a language, but I reject it as part of the <a href="/wiki/Afrikaner" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrikaner">Afrikaner</a> political identity. I no longer consider myself an Afrikaner".<sup id="cite_ref-bbcobit_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcobit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt1983_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt1983-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Breytenbach died in Paris, France on 24 November 2024, at the age of 85.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-news24obit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news24obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife Yolande was by his side.<sup id="cite_ref-news24obit_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news24obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was the younger brother of <a href="/wiki/Jan_Breytenbach" title="Jan Breytenbach">Jan Breytenbach</a> (1932 – 16 June 2024), an <a href="/wiki/South_African_Defence_Force" title="South African Defence Force">SADF</a> commander against whom he held strongly opposing political views, and the late Cloete Breytenbach (1933–2019) a widely published <a href="/wiki/War_correspondent" title="War correspondent">war correspondent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cloete was notably one of the few people given permission by South African Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/John_Vorster" title="John Vorster">John Vorster</a> to take photographs of Nelson Mandela at <a href="/wiki/Robben_Island_(prison)" title="Robben Island (prison)">Robben Island</a> following his imprisonment there in July 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Breytenbach is now informally considered by <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a>-speakers as their <a href="/wiki/Poet_laureate" title="Poet laureate">poet laureate</a> and was one of the most important living poets in <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans_literature" title="Afrikaans literature">Afrikaans literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-da_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-da-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the jurors for the 2017 <a href="/wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert_International_Literary_Award" title="Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award">Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award</a>, German writer, publisher, and translator <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kr%C3%BCger_(writer)" title="Michael Krüger (writer)">Michael Krüger</a>, wrote: "Breytenbach is without question the most gifted and most productive poet of White-Africa's literature... His works as a poet and as a painter are now acknowledged as outstanding in understanding our modern world".<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_honours">French honours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: French honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chevalier_de_la_Legion_d%27Honneur" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur">Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur</a><sup id="cite_ref-fr24a_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr24a-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-agathe_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-agathe-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rfi_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfi-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commandeur_des_Arts_et_Lettres" class="mw-redirect" title="Commandeur des Arts et Lettres">Commandeur des Arts et Lettres</a> (France's top cultural award)<sup id="cite_ref-fr24a_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr24a-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-agathe_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-agathe-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rfi_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfi-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literary_awards">Literary awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Literary awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CNA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="CNA Award">CNA Award</a> (5 times),<sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <i>Die huis van die dowe</i> (1968), <i>Kouevuur</i> (1969), <i>Lotus</i> (1970), <i>YK</i> (1983), and <i>Memory of snow and dust</i> (1989)<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1965: APB Prize<sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <i>Die ysterkoei moet sweet</i> and <i> Katastrofes</i><sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/Reina_Prinsen_Geerligs_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award">Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for South Africa, for <i>Die huis van die dowe</i><sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1972: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucy_B._and_C.W._van_der_Hoogt_Prize&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Prize (page does not exist)">Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogt Prize</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_B._en_C.W._van_der_Hoogtprijs" class="extiw" title="nl:Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs">nl</a>]</span>, for Lotus<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1984, 1999, 2008, & 2010: <a href="/wiki/Hertzog_Prize" title="Hertzog Prize">Hertzog Prize</a><sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He refused to accept the 1984 prize (for <i>Yk</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1982: Van der Hoogt Prize<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <i>Skryt</i><sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</a> for Fiction, for <i>Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel</i><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1986: <i><a href="/wiki/Rapport_(newspaper)" title="Rapport (newspaper)">Rapport</a></i> Literature Prize, worth <a href="/wiki/South_African_rand" title="South African rand">R</a> 15,000 (a major prize)<sup id="cite_ref-SAHO_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Alan_Paton_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Alan Paton Award">Alan Paton Award</a>, for <i>Return to Paradise</i><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2007: W.A. Hofmeyr Prize, for "Die windvanger"<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Hertzog_Prize" title="Hertzog Prize">Hertzog Prize</a>, for "Die windvanger"<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008: University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, for "Die windvanger"<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Darwish_Award_for_Creativity" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity">Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <i>Outre Voix/Voice Over</i>, the French translation of <i>Oorblyfsel/Voice Over: 'n roudig</i><sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Jacob_Prize&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Max Jacob Prize (page does not exist)">Max Jacob Prize</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Max-Jacob" class="extiw" title="fr:Prix Max-Jacob">fr</a>]</span>, for <i>Outre Voix/Voice Over</i><sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: Protea Poetry Prize<sup id="cite_ref-herberta_4-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-herberta-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert_International_Literary_Award" title="Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award">Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yahoo_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Campert_Prize" title="Jan Campert Prize">Jan Campert Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> special prize<sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacobus_van_Looy_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacobus van Looy Prize">Jacobus van Looy Prize</a> (for literature and art)<sup id="cite_ref-nyu_18-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyu-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Perskor Prize, for <i>Voetskrif</i><sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>International Publishers Prize, special prize<sup id="cite_ref-breuer2014_12-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breuer2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Breytenbach is mentioned by name as the only exception in the satirical Apartheid-era <i><a href="/wiki/Spitting_Image" title="Spitting Image">Spitting Image</a></i> song "<a href="/wiki/I%27ve_Never_Met_a_Nice_South_African" title="I've Never Met a Nice South African">I've Never Met a Nice South African</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Basque rock band Berri Txarrak dedicated the song "Breyten" to him on their 2005 album <i>Jaio.Musika.Hil</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Breytenbach's work includes numerous volumes of novels, poetry and essays, many of which are in <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a>. Many have been translated from Afrikaans to English, and many were originally published in English. Exhibitions of his paintings and prints have been shown in cities around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His works have been translated into many languages, including English, Dutch, German, French, Arabic, Polish, Danish, Basque, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry_in_Afrikaans">Poetry in Afrikaans</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Poetry in Afrikaans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Die ysterkoei moet sweet</i> (<i>The Iron Cow Must Sweat</i>), Johannesburg, 1964</li> <li><i>Die huis van die dowe</i> (<i>The House of the Deaf</i>), Cape Town, 1967</li> <li><i>Kouevuur</i> (<i>Gangrene</i>), Cape Town, 1969</li> <li><i>Lotus</i>, Cape Town, 1970</li> <li><i>The Remains</i> (Oorblyfsels), Cape Town, 1970</li> <li><i>Skryt. Om 'n sinkende skip blou te verf</i> (<i>Scrit. Painting Blue a sinking Ship</i>), Amsterdam, 1972</li> <li><i>Met ander woorde</i> (<i>In Other Words</i>), Cape Town, 1973</li> <li><i>Voetskrif</i> (<i>Footnote</i>), Johannesburg, 1976</li> <li><i>Sinking Ship Blues</i>, Oasis Editions, <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> 1977</li> <li><i>And Death White as Words. An Anthology</i>, London, 1978</li> <li><i>In Africa even the flies are happy</i>, London, 1978</li> <li><i>Flower Writing</i> (Blomskryf), <a href="/wiki/Emmarentia" title="Emmarentia">Emmarentia</a>, 1979 (Selected poems)</li> <li><i>Eclipse</i> (Eklips), Emmarentia, 1983</li> <li><i>YK</i>, Emmarentia, 1983</li> <li><i>Buffalo Bill</i>, Emmarentia, 1984</li> <li><i>Living Death</i> (Lewendood), Emmarentia, 1985</li> <li><i>Judas Eye</i>, London – New York, 1988</li> <li><i>As Like</i> (Soos die so), Emmarentia, 1990</li> <li><i>Nine Landscapes of our Times Bequeathed to a Beloved</i> (Nege landskappe van ons tye bemaak aan 'n beminde), <a href="/wiki/Groenkloof" title="Groenkloof">Groenkloof</a>, 1993</li> <li><i>The Handful of Feathers</i> (Die hand vol vere), Cape Town, 1995 (Selected poems)</li> <li><i>The Remains. An Elegy</i> (Oorblyfsels. 'n Roudig), Cape Town, 1997</li> <li><i>Paper Flower</i> (Papierblom), Cape Town, 1998</li> <li><i>Lady One</i>, Cape Town, 2000 (Selected love poems)</li> <li><i>Iron Cow Blues</i> (Ysterkoei-blues), Cape Town, 2001 (Collected poems 1964–1975)</li> <li><i>Lady One: Of Love and other Poems</i>, New York, 2002</li> <li><i>The undanced dance. Prison poetry 1975 – 1983</i> (Die ongedanste dans. Gevangenisgedigte 1975 – 1983), Cape Town, 2005</li> <li><i>Die windvanger</i> (<i>The windcatcher</i>), Cape Town, 2007</li> <li><i>Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish</i>, Archipelago Books, 2009</li> <li><i>Catalects (Artefacts for the slow uses of dying)</i> (<i>Katalekte (artefakte vir die stadige gebruike van doodgaan</i>)), Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 2012</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prose_in_English">Prose in English</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Prose in English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Catastrophes</i> (<i>Katastrofes</i>), Johannesburg, 1964 (stories)</li> <li><i>To Fly</i> (<i>Om te vlieg</i>), Cape Town, 1971 (novel)</li> <li><i>The Tree Behind the Moon</i> (De boom achter de maan), Amsterdam, 1974 (stories)</li> <li><i>The Anthill Bloats …</i> (Die miernes swell op ...), Emmarentia, 1980 (stories)</li> <li><i>A Season in Paradise</i> (Een seizoen in het paradijs), Amsterdam – New York – London, 1980 (novel, uncensored edition)</li> <li><i>Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel</i>, London – New York, 1983</li> <li><i>Mirror Death</i> (Spiegeldood), Amsterdam, 1984 (stories)</li> <li><i>End Papers</i>, London, 1985 (essays)</li> <li><i>The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist</i>, London – New York, 1985<sup id="cite_ref-Schalkwyk_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schalkwyk-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Saayman_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saayman-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Memory of Snow and of Dust</i>, London – New York, 1987 (novel)</li> <li><i>Book. Part One</i> (Boek. Deel een), Emmarentia, 1987 (essays)</li> <li><i>All One Horse. Fiction and Images</i>, London, 1989</li> <li><i>Sweet Heart</i> (Hart-Lam), Emmarentia, 1991 (essays)</li> <li><i>Return to Paradise. An African journal</i>, London – New York, 1992 (which won the <a href="/wiki/Alan_Paton_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Alan Paton Award">Alan Paton Award</a>)</li> <li><i>The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution</i>, London – New York, 1996 (essays)</li> <li><i>Dog Heart. A travel memoir</i>, Cape Town, 1998</li> <li><i>Word Work</i> (Woordwerk), Cape Town, 1999</li> <li><i>A Veil of Footsteps</i>, Cape Town, 2008</li> <li><i>Intimate Stranger</i>, Archipelago Books, 2009</li> <li><i>Notes From The Middle World: Essays</i>, Haymarket Books, 2009</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CDs">CDs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: CDs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Mondmusiek</i> (2001)<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Lady One</i> (2002)<sup id="cite_ref-helgaard_6-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-helgaard-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles">Articles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/0082308">"Mandela's Smile: Notes on South Africa's Failed Revolution"</a>. <i>Harper's Magazine</i>. Vol. 317, no. 1903. December 2008. pp. 39–48.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Harper%27s+Magazine&rft.atitle=Mandela%27s+Smile%3A+Notes+on+South+Africa%27s+Failed+Revolution&rft.volume=317&rft.issue=1903&rft.pages=39-48&rft.date=2008-12&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpers.org%2Farchive%2F2008%2F12%2F0082308&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABreyten+Breytenbach" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breyten_Breytenbach&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output 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