Breyten Breytenbach (16 September 1939 – 24 November 2024) 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 is also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important living poets in Afrikaans literature.
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16 September 1939 Bonnievale, Western Cape, South Africa
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Died |
24 November 2024 (aged 85)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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