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André Brink
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South African writer (1935–2015)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1935
- Works
- 118
Top works
- Devil's valley
- Before I Forget
- Die jogger :ʼn drama in twee bedrywe
- Kinkels in die kabel
- Philida
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1952-05-17
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,070x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,815x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,767x
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Quotes
- “...flotsam from the fatherland.”
- “Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions.”
- “[t]hrough perceiving the world as a story to be told and endlessly reshaped, I would argue, the reader is actually encouraged to act upon the world (..) literature becomes more, not less, potent”
- “History provides one of the most fertile silences to be revisited by South African writers because the dominant discourse of white historiography (...) has inevitably silenced, for so long,so many other possibilities.”
- “Address two silences simultaneously: that created by the marginalization of women,and that effected by a (white-dominated) master-narrative of history.”
- “Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences.”
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Key facts
- Born
- André Philippus Brink , ( 1935-05-29 ) 29 May 1935, Vrede , South Africa
- Died
- 6 February 2015 (2015-02-06) (aged 79), on a flight from Amsterdam , Netherlands, to South Africa
- Occupation
- Writer
- Language
- Afrikaans English
- Alma mater
- University of Potchefstroom Sorbonne University
- Notable works
- A Dry White Season An Act of Terror A Chain of Voices
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- André Brink Portrait.jpg
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- date of death
- 2015-02-06
- Commons category
- André Brink
- date of birth
- 1935-05-29
- birth name
- André Philippus Brink
- name in native language
- Andre Brink
- official blog URL
- andrebrink.book.co.za
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to André Brink, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~4 min read
Article
André Philippus Brink OIS (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans dissident intellectual and literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikaner people to world literature, to use the Afrikaans language to speak out against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party-controlled government, and also to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist literature, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature. While André Brink's early novels were especially concerned with his own opposition to apartheid, his later work engaged the new questions of life in South Africa since the end of National Party rule in 1994.