biography
| name: |
Breytenbach, Breyten
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pronunciation:
[braytinbokh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1939– )
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| biography:
| Painter, poet, and essayist, born in Bonnievale, S South Africa. He left South Africa in 1960, and settled in Paris, where he exhibited as a painter. The first of over a dozen volumes of poetry was Ysterkoei Moet Sweet (1964, The Iron Cow Must Sweat). In 1975 he returned to South Africa in disguise, was arrested, and sentenced to nine years imprisonment for ‘terrorism’. He wrote of his prison years in True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1984). Since the early 1980s, he has written mainly in English. Much of his poetry, prose, and memoirs defy conventional categories. |
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