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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"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikaner people to world literature, to use the Afrikaans language to speak out against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party-controlled government, and also to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist literature, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Brink has received more than 210,118 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). André Brink is the 1,780th most popular writer (down from 1,585th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 30th in 2019) and the 5th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 6.30

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Brink ranks 1,780 out of 5,755Before him are Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Petar Kočić, Meleager of Gadara, Bernard Malamud, Theodor Nöldeke, and Viktor Barna. After him are György Konrád, Elvira Madigan, Aphra Behn, Ion of Chios, Robert Silverberg, and Anne Perry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, André Brink ranks 103Before him are Judd Hirsch, Luis del Sol, Lajos Tichy, Jerry Orbach, Tsutomu Hata, and Jan Saudek. After him are John Phillips, Robert Silverberg, Mário Coluna, Chaim Topol, Bruno Sammartino, and Charles Grodin. Among people deceased in 2015, André Brink ranks 93Before him are Chantal Akerman, Akiyuki Nosaka, Franzl Lang, Rose Francine Rogombé, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, and Philippe Honoré. After him are Kenzo Ohashi, John Guillermin, Patrick Macnee, Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Mizuki, and Ieng Thirith.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, André Brink ranks 35 out of 374Before him are D. F. Malan (1874), Peter Abrahams (1919), Abba Eban (1915), Basil Rathbone (1892), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), and Kevin Carter (1960). After him are Arnold Vosloo (1962), Angelique Rockas (1951), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Andries Pretorius (1798), Louis Botha (1862), and John Vorster (1915).

Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, André Brink ranks 5Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), and Peter Abrahams (1919). After him are Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).