Sestigers

South African writer (1935–2015)

South African writer and painter (1939–2024)

Bilingual South African poet and political dissident (1933–1965)

South African writer (1922–2020)

South African writer (1939-2015)

South African writer (1922–1989)

South African writer (1936–2016)

Afrikaans poet/short story writer/cabaretist/academic (1934–2014)

South African writer (1920-2001)

thumb | right | Brink in 1999 The Sestigers (Sixtiers), also known as the Beweging van Sestig ("the movement of the sixties"), were a dissident literary movement of Afrikaans-language poets and writers in South Africa under apartheid. The movement was started in the beachside Cape Town suburb of Clifton during the early 1960s by André Brink and Breyten Breytenbach, under the mentorship of Uys Krige and Jack Cope, and in continuation of a tradition in South African literature pioneered in the 1920s by Roy Campbell, William Plomer, and Laurens van der Post.