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Breyten Breytenbach

South African writer and painter

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born: 1939
died: 2024
age at death: 85
known for: poet, writer, painter

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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.

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