Breyten Breytenbach
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Breyten Breytenbach: Cosmopolitan anarchist from the Boland
The poet and painter was one of the greatest wordsmiths in Afrikaans
Anthony Akerman on the warmth of Breyten Breytenbach in exile
Akerman’s memoir reflects on exile and meeting Breytenbach
The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Oh, for more meat on these bones
Breyten Breytenbach’s work is celebrated in a study deserving of more context, conviction and heft.
Dancing in Other Words: Poetry in motion
A conceptually explosive poetry event will take place on the Spier wine estate outside Stellenbosch on May 10 and 11.
Breytenbach: ‘This is a Season’
Listen to SA poet, novelist and founding member of the Sestigers, Breyten Breytenbach, reading one of his poems at the M&G Literary Festival.
New pressure on UJ to sever Israel ties
Archbishop Desmond has added his voice to calls for the University of Johannesburg to sever academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University.
Prominent poet denounces crime in SA
Breyten Breytenbach has unleashed his pen against crime in his homeland in a US magazine, prompting a rebuke from Nelson Mandela’s office.
A stunted af(fair)
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.
Imagining the riddles of our time
An edited extract from Breyten Breytenbach’s speech at the Time of the Writer festival.