biography
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Brink, André (Philippus)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, short-story writer, playwright, critic, and translator, born in Vrede, E South Africa. An Afrikaner dissident, he emerged as a writer in the 1950s, but it was not until his seventh novel - which he later translated into English as Looking on Darkness (1974) - was banned by the South African authorities that he began to attract international attention. Later books include Rumours of Rain (1978), Chain of Voices (1982), Imaginings of Sand (1996), Devil's Valley (1998), The First Voice of Adamastor (1999), and The Rights of Desire (2001). He received the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize and the French Prix Medicis Etranger in 1980, and has twice been runner-up for the Booker Prize. |
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