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Breyten-Breytenbach

Personal Details Name Breyten-Breytenbach Place of birth Bonnievale Date of Birth September 16, 1939 Nationality French Field Writer,Painter Movement South African writer and painter Works Voice Over (2009),IntimateStranger(2009)

Career:

    In France he was a founder member of Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile. On an banned trip to South Africa in 1975 he was betrayed, arrested and sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for high treason. Released in 1982 as a result of massive international intervention he returned to Paris and obtained French citizenship.

    He presently divides his time between Europe, Africa, and the United States. He joined the University of Cape Town as a visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities (from January 2000) and is also involved with the Gorée Institute in Dakar (Senegal) and with New York University.

    The work of Breytenbach includes numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and essays, many of which are in Afrikaans, many translated from Afrikaans to English, and many published originally in English. He is also known for his works of pictorial arts. Exhibitions of his paintings and prints were shown in numerous cities around the world including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, Brussels, Edinburgh and New York.

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