1935 - 2015
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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Among writers, André Brink ranks 1,780 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1907 - 2003
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 1,774
1877 - 1916
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 1,775
130 BC - 60 BC
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 1,776
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 1,777
1836 - 1930
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 1,778
1911 - 1972
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 1,779
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 1,780
1933 - 2019
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 1,781
1867 - 1889
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 1,782
1640 - 1689
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 1,783
490 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 1,784
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 1,785
1938 - 2023
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 1,786
Among people born in 1935, André Brink ranks 103. Before 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 93. Before 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.
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 97
1935 - 2021
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 98
1935 - 1999
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 99
1935 - 2004
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 100
1935 - 2017
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 101
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 102
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 103
1935 - 2001
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 104
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 105
1935 - 2014
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 106
1935 - 2023
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 107
1935 - 2018
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 108
1935 - 2021
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 109
1950 - 2015
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 87
1930 - 2015
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 88
1930 - 2015
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 89
1942 - 2015
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 90
1937 - 2015
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 91
1941 - 2015
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 92
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 93
1934 - 2015
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 94
1925 - 2015
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 95
1922 - 2015
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 96
1959 - 2015
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 97
1922 - 2015
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 98
1932 - 2015
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 99
Among people born in South Africa, André Brink ranks 35 out of 374. Before 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).
1874 - 1959
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 29
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2002
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 31
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 32
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 33
1960 - 1994
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 34
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 35
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 36
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 37
1826 - 1884
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 38
1798 - 1853
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 39
1862 - 1919
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 40
1915 - 1983
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 41
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 Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 3
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 4
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 5
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 6
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 7
1934 - 2020
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 8
1906 - 1996
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 10
1903 - 1988
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 11
1933 - 1965
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 12