André Brink

André Philippus Brink (* May 29, 1935 in Vrede, André P. Brink often ) is a South African writer, translator and literary critic. He is one of the most important contemporary writers of South Africa.

Life

André Brink was born the son of a magistrate and a teacher in the Orange Free State. His father was often offset so that the family lived in many different places. André Brink put his Matric from the Lydenburg Lydenburg High School and studied from 1953 to 1959 at the University of Potchefstroom literature. In 1959 he married for the first time. From 1959 to 1961 he lived in Paris, also from 1967 until 1968. The Sharpeville massacre in 1960 made ​​him a critic of the apartheid system. In 1961 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne. From 1961 to 1980 he was a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In 1962 he founded with Breyten Breytenbach, and Ingrid Jonker, the writers' association The Sestigers ( German: " The Sixties" ), whose members wrote in Afrikaans and were opposed to apartheid. When the Sestigers split in 1968, he held fast to the idea that art is political. Brinks novel Kennis van aand the (1973 ) described the - at that time forbidden - love of a white man to a black woman and was banned as a first authored text in Afrikaans in South Africa. Brink translated the novel into English and then published it abroad. Since then, he writes his novels - with one exception - both in Afrikaans and English, so that they usually appear in two languages ​​simultaneously. In 1980 he was awarded a professorship for Afrikaans literature at Rhodes University. The ban on Kennis van the Aand was repealed in 1982. In July 1987, Brink was a member of a delegation of Boers, who spoke with the head of the then banned African National Congress in Dakar, Senegal on a democratic future for South Africa.

From 1991 to 2005, Brink Honorary Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town. While many of his early novels deal with the time of apartheid, he describes in some of his later work life in South Africa in the newly won democracy. So his novel Imaginings of Sand plays ( German: sand castles ) around the time of the first democratic elections in 1994 Praying Mantis. ( German: Cupid's Chronicle ) deals with the life of the first pastor of the Khoikhoi in the 18th century. In 2009 they had Brinks autobiography A Fork in the Road. In addition to novels Brink has written numerous travel books, plays, children 's books, literary criticism and essays. He also translated numerous books into Afrikaans, especially works of world literature.

Brink is one of the few Afrikaans authors find that international attention. He was twice nominated for the Booker Prize, and was several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature in conversation. Three times he was awarded the CNA Literary Award, a South African literary award. In 2003 he was awarded the Alan Paton Fiction Award. He received three honorary doctorates from South African universities and by the South African government the Order of Ikhamanga in silver.

Brink is married for the sixth time.

Awards and nominations

Works

  • The gebondenes. Roman, 1958.
  • Eindelose Wee. Roman, 1960.
  • Caesar. Drama, 1961.
  • Lobola vir the lewe. Roman, 1962.
  • The ambassadeur. Novel, 1963 ( German Nicolette and the Ambassador, 1966).
  • Sempre diritto. Travelogue, 1963.
  • Olé. Travelogue, 1964.
  • Orgy. Roman, 1965.
  • Pot- Pourri. Travelogue, 1962.
  • Miskien Nooit. Prose, 1967.
  • Parys - Parys: returns. Travelogue, 1969.
  • Midi. Op reis deur Suid - Franryk. Travelogue, 1969.
  • Fado. 'N reis deur North Portugal. Travelogues, 1970.
  • Kinkel innie cable. Roman, 1971.
  • Oom Kootje Emmer. Children's book, 1973.
  • Kennis van aand the. Roman, 1973 / Looking on Darkness. 1974 ( Eng.: Looking into the darkness 1979. ).
  • Brandewyn in Suid -Afrika. / Brandy in South Africa. 1973
  • Dessertwyn in Suid -Afrika. / Dessert Wine in South Africa. 1974
  • 'N oomblik in the wind. / An Instant in the Wind. Novel, 1975 ( Eng.: voices in the wind 1981. ).
  • The hamer van the hekse. Drama, 1976.
  • Gerugte van Reen. / Rumours of Rain. Roman, 1978.
  • 'N droe wit seisoen. / A Dry White Season. Novel, 1978 ( Eng.: A Dry White Season 1984. ).
  • Literatuur in the strydperk. Essays, 1985.
  • Houd - the -Bek. / A Chain of Voices. Novel, 1982 ( Eng.: The hippopotamus whip in 1986. ).
  • The van muur the pes. / The Wall of the Plague. Roman ( German: The Pestmauer 1988. ).
  • Mapmakers. Writing in a State of Siege. Essays, 1983 ( Eng.: stumbling block in 1989. ).
  • States of Emergency. Roman, 1988.
  • De kreef Raak gewoond daaraan. / An Act of Terror. Novel, 1991 ( Eng.:. Time of Terror, 1994).
  • The Eerste lewe van Adamastor. / The First Life of Adamastor. Roman, 1993.
  • Inteendeel. / On the Contrary. Novel, 1993 ( Eng.:. On the contrary, 1994).
  • Sand Kaštele. / Imaginings of Sand. Novel, 1996 ( Eng.: sand castles 1996. ).
  • Duiwelskloof. / Devil 's Valley. Roman, 1998.
  • Donkermaan. / The Rights of Desire. Novel, 2000.
  • Ander Kant stilte. / The Other Side of Silence. Novel, 2002 ( Eng.: The Other Side of Silence 2008. ).
  • Voor ek Vergeet. / Before I Forget. Novel, 2004
  • Bidsprinkaan. / Praying Mantis. Novel, 2005 ( German Cupid's Chronicle. , Osburg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940731-27-2 ).
  • The blou deur. / The Blue Door. Amendment, 2006.
  • Ander Lewens. / Other Lives. Novel, 2008.
  • 'N vurk in the pad. / A Fork in the Road. Memoirs, 2009.
  • Philida. / Philida. Novel, in 2012.

Filming

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