![]() ![]() 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. 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"). He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town. André Philippus Brink OIS ( – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. ![]()
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