Brink, André Philippus

Brink, André Philippus

▪ South African author
born May 29, 1935, Vrede, S.Af.

      South African writer whose novels, which he wrote in Afrikaans and English versions, often criticized the South African government.

      Brink was educated in South Africa and France. He later became professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, S.Af. He was one of a new generation of Afrikaans writers known as the Sestigers (“Sixtyers,” or writers of the 1960s), whose declared aim was “to broaden the rather too parochial limits of Afrikaner fiction.” In essence, this meant depicting sexual and moral matters and examining the political system in a way that rapidly antagonized the traditional Afrikaner reader.

      Brink's early novels Lobola vir die lewe (1962; “The Price of Living”) and Die Ambassadeur (1963; The Ambassador) were essentially apolitical, but his later work focused on South Africa. His novels presented increasingly bleak and bitter evidence of the disintegration of human values that occurs under apartheid. Kennis van die aand (1973; Looking on Darkness), 'N Oomblik in die wind (1975; An Instant in the Wind), and Gerugte van Reën (1978; Rumours of Rain) used the sexual relationship between a black man and a white woman to show the destructiveness of racial hatred. His later works include 'N Droë wit seisoen (1979; A Dry White Season), in which a white liberal investigates the death of a black activist in police custody; Houd-den-bek (1982; A Chain of Voices), which recounts through many points of view a slave revolt in 1825; States of Emergency (1988); and An Act of Terror (1991). Brink's works were well received abroad, but some were banned in South Africa.

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