name: Breyten Breytenbach
birth_date: 1939-09-16 00:00:00
death_date: 2024-11-24 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Literature & Fiction
avg_rating: 3.96
ratings_count: 850
about: Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party-led South African Government. He is also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important living poets in Afrikaans literature.