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André Brink (André Philippus Brink) was born on 29 May, 1935 in Vrede, South Africa, is a South African writer (1935–2015). Discover André Brink's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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André Philippus Brink |
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Writer |
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79 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
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29 May, 1935 |
Birthday |
29 May |
Birthplace |
Vrede, South Africa |
Date of death |
6 February, 2015 |
Died Place |
on a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to South Africa |
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South Africa
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André Brink Height, Weight & Measurements
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André Brink Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is André Brink worth at the age of 79 years old? André Brink’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. He is from South Africa. We have estimated André Brink's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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André Philippus Brink (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.
Brink moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 with seven distinctions, the second student from the then Transvaal to achieve this feat and studied Afrikaans literature in the Potchefstroom University of South Africa.
His immense attachment with literature carried him to France from 1959 to 1961, where he got his degree from Sorbonne University at Paris in comparative literature.
During his stay, he came across an undeniable fact that changed his mind forever: black students were treated on an equal social basis with other students.
Back in South Africa, he became one of the most prominent of young Afrikaans writers, along with the novelist Etienne Leroux and the poet Breyten Breytenbach, to challenge the apartheid policy of the National party through his writings.
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.
During a second journey in France between 1967 and 1968, he hardened his political position against Apartheid and began writing both in Afrikaans and English to enlarge his audience and outplay the censure he was facing in his native country at the time.
Indeed, his novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government.
André Brink translated Kennis van die aand into English and published it abroad as Looking on Darkness.
This was his first self-translation.
After that, André Brink wrote his works simultaneously in English and Afrikaans.
In 1975, he obtained his PhD in Literature at Rhodes University.
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.
Brink was born in Vrede, in the Free State.
In 2008, in an echo of a scene from his novel A Chain of Voices, his family was beset by tragedy, when his nephew Adri Brink was murdered in front of his wife and children in their Gauteng home.
Brink died on a flight from Amsterdam to South Africa, having visited Belgium to receive an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain.
He was married five times.
Brink's son, Anton Brink, is an artist.