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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"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Brink has received more than 226,711 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). André Brink is the 1,944th most popular writer (down from 1,776th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 35th in 2019) and the 5th most popular South African Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Brink ranks 1,944 out of 7,302. Before him are Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Vazha-Pshavela, Avitus of Vienne, Hirokazu Kanazawa, and Nicholas Sparks. After him are Constantine of Preslav, Bernard Palissy, Jón Arason, Eugenio Barba, Jane Jacobs, and Margarete Buber-Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, André Brink ranks 119. Before him are Luboš Kohoutek, Thomas Keneally, Azzedine Alaïa, Richard Kuklinski, Bruno Sammartino, and Jan Saudek. After him are Jerry Orbach, Jerry Fodor, Chaim Topol, Tsutomu Hata, Mohamed Choukri, and Sergei Khrushchev. Among people deceased in 2015, André Brink ranks 105. Before him are Omar Karami, Eileen Essell, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Franzl Lang, Jaakko Hintikka, and Halldór Ásgrímsson. After him are Adrian Frutiger, Hyon Yong-chol, Guy Ligier, Chea Sim, John Guillermin, and Kirk Kerkorian.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, André Brink ranks 36 out of 454. Before him are Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Michael Levitt (1947), Peter Abrahams (1919), and Arnold Vosloo (1962). After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Kevin Carter (1960), Andries Pretorius (1798), Rory Byrne (1944), Louis Botha (1862), and C. R. Swart (1894).

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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 Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Alan Paton (1903).

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