1939
Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)
Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)
Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)
Breyten Breytenbach
South African writer and painter (1939–2024)
- Born
- 1939
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He 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. He was also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important poets in Afrikaans literature.