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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 285,053 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Breyten Breytenbach is the 3,430th most popular writer (up from 3,709th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 75th in 2019) and the 6th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

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  • 2.92

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 3,430 out of 5,755. Before him are Gabrielle Wittkop, Laura Mancinelli, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, Émile Faguet, Robert Ettinger, and Anar Rzayev. After him are Doria Shafik, Johann Georg von Hahn, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Song Yu, Georgi Pulevski, and Goffredo Mameli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 247. Before him are Brigitte Fontaine, Tigran Mansurian, Corin Redgrave, Tetsuya Chiba, Yuri Bezmenov, and Arik Einstein. After him are Zenon Grocholewski, Harry Reid, Phil Read, Valery Voronin, Fahrudin Jusufi, and Ivar Jacobson.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 65 out of 374. Before him are J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Koos de la Rey (1847), David Cooper (1931), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), and Reggie Walker (1889). After him are Navi Pillay (1941), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Steve Nash (1974), and Nico Diederichs (1903).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach ranks 6. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), and André Brink (1935). After him are Laurence Oliphant (1829), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).

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