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andré brink in lyon , france , june 2007 06 february 2015 on a flight from the netherlands to south africa vrede , south africa 250px south african '' of terror '' '' a chain of voices '' a dry white season '' '' an act 29 may 1935 afrikaans , english andré brink portrait.jpg andré brink
 andré philippus brink writer university of potchefstroom sorbonne university
andré brink

andré philippus brink , -lrb- 29 may 1935 -- 6 february 2015 -rrb- was a south african novelist .
he wrote in both afrikaans and english and was a professor of english at the university of cape town .
in the 1960s he , ingrid jonker , etienne leroux and breyten breytenbach were key figures in the significant afrikaans literary movement known as `` die sestigers '' -lrb- `` the sixty-ers '' -rrb- .
these writers sought to use afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government , and also to bring into afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary english and french trends .
while brink 's early novels were especially concerned with apartheid , his later work engaged the new range of issues posed by life in a democratic south africa .
