WRITER

Breyten Breytenbach

1939 - Today

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Breyten Breytenbach (; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet, and painter who became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party-led South African Government. Breytenbach is now informally considered by Afrikaans-speakers as their poet laureate and is one of the most important living poets in Afrikaans literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Breyten Breytenbach has received more than 282,278 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Breyten Breytenbach is the 4,333rd most popular writer (down from 3,418th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 65th in 2019) and the 9th most popular South African Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lady One
1900
End papers
Politics and government, Apartheid, Political and social views
1986
The true confessions of an albino terrorist
Biography, Race relations, Afrikaans Authors
1983
Die ongedanste dans
1900
Mouroir
Fiction
1983
Dog Heart
Biography, Afrikaans Authors
1998

Page views of Breyten Breytenbaches by language

Over the past year Breyten Breytenbach has had the most page views in the with 42,891 views, followed by Afrikaans (6,893), and Dutch (2,983). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (125.46%), Irish (76.08%), and Tajik (51.04%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 4,333 out of 7,302. Before him are Herbert Achternbusch, Dorothee Sölle, Franciszek Karpiński, Orhan Kemal, Winston Graham, and Helen Prejean. After him are Ruth Westheimer, Maksim Tank, Connie Willis, Yurii Andrukhovych, Moacyr Scliar, and Andrew Marvell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 346. Before him are Christodoulos of Athens, Ferdinand Bracke, Vivi Bach, Richard Posner, Yves Boisset, and Helen Prejean. After him are Günther Herrmann, John Hopcroft, Ernie Terrell, Adrienne Clarkson, Theo Waigel, and Brigitte Fassbaender.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 89 out of 454. Before him are Jamie Uys (1921), Helen Suzman (1917), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Claude Chevalley (1909), Rudolph Lewis (1887), and Basil van Rooyen (1939). After him are Gary Player (1935), Eben Dönges (1898), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Chris Hani (1942), and Ted Moore (1914).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 9. Before him are Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurence Oliphant (1829), and Laurens van der Post (1906). After him are Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Alan Paton (1903), Andrew Murray (1828), Elsa Joubert (1922), and Antjie Krog (1952).

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