The poet and painter was one of the greatest wordsmiths in Afrikaans
Akerman’s memoir reflects on exile and meeting Breytenbach
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Breyten Breytenbach’s work is celebrated in a study deserving of more context, conviction and heft.
A conceptually explosive poetry event will take place on the Spier wine estate outside Stellenbosch on May 10 and 11.
Listen to SA poet, novelist and founding member of the Sestigers, Breyten Breytenbach, reading one of his poems at the M&G Literary Festival.
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/ 24 September 2010
Archbishop Desmond has added his voice to calls for the University of Johannesburg to sever academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University.
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/ 19 December 2008
Breyten Breytenbach has unleashed his pen against crime in his homeland in a US magazine, prompting a rebuke from Nelson Mandela’s office.
If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.
An edited extract from Breyten Breytenbach’s speech at the Time of the Writer festival.