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Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach

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16 Sept 1939 (86 years)
Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa

Biography

Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.

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