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	Breytenbach, Breyten Criticism and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Breytenbach is widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary South African writers, particularly for his poetry, which is written in the traditional white South African language, Afrikaans.
		Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, South Africa, a descendant of the earliest Dutch settlers there who called themselves "Afrikaners." He attended the University of Cape Town until 1959, when he left South Africa and settled in Paris to work as an artist.
		Breytenbach is sometimes criticized for his courtroom confession and apology; nevertheless, he served seven years of his nine-year sentence, two of them in solitary confinement.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/breytenbach-breyten (834 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Breyten Breytenbach
		Breyten Breytenbach was born as one of five children on 16 September 1939 into a distinguished, but poor farmer family in Bonnievale/Cape province, South Africa.
		Breyten Breytenbach was co-founder of the centre for creative arts at the University of Natal in 1995.
		Breyten Breytenbach was born on 16 September 1939 in a distinguished, old, but poor Afrikaner family in Bonnievale/Cape province, South Africa and grew up in the small-town of Wellington.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?147 (1411 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach
		Breyten Breytenbach was born in 1939 as son of a Boer family in Bonnievale in the South African Cape Province and grew up in the small town of Wellington.
		In 1975 Breytenbach was arrested with a false passport in his home country and sentenced to nine years in prison and was only released in 1982 under international pressure.
		Breyten Breytenbach started his writing with poems, with loose rhythmic verses which link, in their nervous imagery, mythic religious narratives with the rough South African present day.
	www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_413.html (479 words)

	NYU > FAS > Faculty > Global Distinguished Professors
		A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist and writer of more than 30 books of poetry.
		A committed opponent of apartheid, Professor Breytenbach established the resistance group "Okhela" for which he wrote the platform.
		Professor Breytenbach has taught at the University of Natal, Princeton University and the University of Cape Town.
	www.nyu.edu /fas/Faculty/Global/BreytenBreytenbach.html (320 words)

	Breytenbach, Breyten - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Breytenbach, Breyten, 1939-, South African writer, painter, and activist.
		Breytenbach's first literary works were poems, many expressing his political views, and he is widely recognized as the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language.
		Breytenbach is also known for his paintings, many of which portray surreal animal and human figures, often in captivity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Breytenb.html (406 words)

	DAAD - wandel durch austausch - change by exchange
		Breyten Breytenbach is internationally known as one of South Africa's most important lyricists and the bearer of several prizes for literature, but also as a painter whose works have been exhibited in Europe, the United States and Hong Kong as well as in his home country.
		Breyten Breytenbach was born in 1939 and comes from a well-situated Boer family in Bonnievale.
		Breytenbach initially wrote his novels and collections of poems that were stylistically influenced by French Surrealism in Afrikaans, then in English or French, and later in Afrikaans again – reflecting his life between worlds.
	www.daad.de /alumni/en/4.2.5_05.html (531 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Even the flies are happy
		Breytenbach is sceptical about the term "Rainbow Nation" enthusiastically applied to the New South Africa and which is supposed to signify the beauty of multi-racial co-existence.
		Breytenbach might not aspire to political office either in his native South Africa or in his adopted France, but he has his finger on the political pulse of the African continent.
		Breytenbach's relationship with South Africans in general is curiously ambiguous: "I always engage a part of them, never the whole," he says.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/686/cu5.htm (1850 words)

	J.U. Jacobs
		In this connection it needs to be borne in mind that Breytenbach’s attempts to come to terms with what it means to be an "Afrikaner" and an "African" may in a certain sense also be seen as an effort to impose "an imaginary coherence" (235) on a personal and national history of alienation and division.
		In my discussion of Breytenbach’s narrative masquerade, however, I would like to emphasise some of the ways in which the dynamic between the autobiographical subject Breytenbach and his African personae is grounded in the contradictory and disjunctive histories, separately and together, of Afrikanerdom and Africanness, and therefore in the experience of heterogeneity and diversity.
		The masquerade begins with Breytenbach’s definition of himself in terms of métissage, which he then fictionalises in the figure of the "coloured" protagonist of his novel Memory of Snow and of Dust, whose integration into Africa is predicated on the dissolution of segregationist Afrikaner culture.
	academic.sun.ac.za /afrndl/tna/jacobs03.html (6804 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach
		Breyten Breytenbach was born on 16 September 1939 in Bonnievale.
		When Breyten Breytenbach returned to South Africa with a false passport in 1975, he was arrested, charged under the Terrorism Act, and jailed for seven years.
		Breyten Breytenbach writes in Afrikaans (most of his poems) and in English (many of his prose works).
	www.stellenboschwriters.com /breyten.html (334 words)

	"Re-placing the South African Self" in Breyten Breytenbach's A Season in Paradise
		Breytenbach's self-conception and self-presentation as a nomad traversing different continents physically and linguistically are played out in the autobiographical discourse of each text.
		Breytenbach does not change the names of the places he visits but he does imbue them with new meaning, by inserting them into his own text, and by so doing, he relegates them to a position of ambiguity and flux.
		It is Breytenbach's act of writing about his awareness of the absent Khoisan people that changes the experience from something 'atopical' to a beginning of process of narration that finally transforms the absence into a presence.
	www.uwc.ac.za /arts/english/interaction/95cs.htm (2344 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach - Wikipedia
		Breyten Breytenbach is 'n Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer en kunstenaar met Franse burgerskap.
		Breytenbach is gebore op 16 September 1938 in Bonnievale, 'n dorp in die Wes-Kaap, ongeveer 180km van Kaapstad en 100km van die suidelikste punt van Afrika by Kaap Agulhas.
		Breytenbach se werk sluit volumes gedigte, romans en essays in, waarvan baie in Afrikaans is, met sommige vertaal in Engels, en 'n aantal wat oorspronklik in Engels gepubliseer is. Hy is ook bekend vir sy skilderwerk.
	af.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach (603 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale in the Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas.
		The work of Breytenbach includes numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and essays, many of which are in Afrikaans, many translated from Afrikaans to English, and many published originally in English.
		Breytenbach was described as the only example of a "nice South African" in the song "I've Never Met A Nice South African".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach (640 words)

	slope:thrtn
		While Breytenbach was allowed to write he was obliged to hand the manuscripts to the commander of the prison in the understanding that the Department of Prisons would retain them and return them to him on the day of his release.
		Breytenbach's concern with subjectivity, I suggest, is a product of his heritage as an Afrikaner and is closely related to his practice as a Zen Buddhist of the Soto sect.
		Breytenbach plays with the voice in the same way that he plays with words: registers, modes of address and conventions are freely integrated.
	www.slope.org /archive/thirteen/13_mateer.html (7528 words)

	FileRoom.org - South African poet Breyten Breytenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Description of Artwork: Breytenbach's poems and stories expressed the vision of free and open society.
		Breytenbach was forced to make changes to "To Fly..." in 1965.
		Results of Incident: Breytenbach was forced to leave South Africa because he married a Vietnamese woman, violating South Africa's Immorality Law.
	www.thefileroom.org /documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/869 (183 words)

	ZA@Play - Books: Prints in the dust 26/01/99
		Towards the end of the book Breytenbach asks: “Why have we become so obsessed with origins and beginnings?” And he replies: “Surely it must be because of some alienation.” In South African terms, obsession with origins has been deeply negative and estranging in impact.
		Breytenbach insists on the inescapability of hybridity - “bastardisation cannot be turned back” - and urges that one has to “keep on making and finding oneself”.
		Breyten Breytenbach believes in the power of the mighty metaphor, he tells Suzy Bell at his exhibition of paintings and drawings at Durban Art Gallery [14/05/98]
	server.mg.co.za /mg/books/9901/990126-dogheart.html (845 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically.
		Born on 16 September 1939 in Bonnievale, near Robertson in the Cape, Breyten Breytenbach completed his schooling at Hoërskool Hugenoot in Wellington, Cape.
		In December 1993 Breytenbach — still living in self-imposed exile in Paris —;- paid a visit to the ‘new South Africa'.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/breytenbach.htm (546 words)

	writersclub.iafrica.com \| toast_coetzer \| reviews Breyten Breytenbach
		Such hiccups are minor though, you'll soon be seduced into submission by the gentle torrent of words from Breyten's mouth ("sometimes with a sudden dove of thrashing in the throat"), the clean, neat production and the splatter of musical ideas floating between speakers.
		And when you look beyond the music and just listen to the words (or read them in the CD book - the packaging btw is exemplary), you'll realise that's where the essence of this album lies, that's the concept, that's the binding thread: the worlds and thoughts that can be created by words.
		The more stripped, spacey music of Benguela (on 'Another Country' and 'Time', especially) allows Breyten more room in which to manoeuvre, their sound, like his writing, not bound by time and place, but by the limits of your imagination.
	writersclub.iafrica.com /toast_coetzer/reviews/994104.htm (633 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach famous artist information (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'''Breyten Breytenbach''' (born [[September 16]], [[1939]]) is a [[South Africa]]n [[writer]] and [[painter]] with [[FranceFrench]] [[citizenship]].
		Breyten Breytenbach was born in [[Bonnievale]], one of the most beautifully situated towns in the [[Western Cape]], approximately 180km from [[Cape Town]] and 100km from the southernmost tip of [[Africa]] at [[Cape Agulhas]].
		The work of Breytenbach includes numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and essays, many of which are in [[Afrikaans]], many translated from Afrikaans to [[English languageEnglish]], and many published originally in English.
	www.artbrain.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /famous-painters/breyten-breytenbach.htm (544 words)

	ZA@Play - Music: Hip, Lip & Everything 25/05/00
		In fact, Breytenbach once wrote that he would have liked to be a musician but that his "tong was te lomp", his "vingers te krom", and in many ways the songs are simply an audio representation of his paintings, his self-portraits.
		Goosen's early Om te Breyten is a delicate piece that aches, and Piet Botha's Verslag is redolent with a deep understanding of Afrikaans culture.
		Breyten Breytenbach's Dog Heart is a quest for origins and a meditation on the act of remembering [26/01/99]
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/music/hiplip/hiplip.htm (801 words)

	Rhythm Records: BREYTEN BREYTENBACH - Mondmusiek
		This year we have another Breytenbach album called ‘Mondmusiek’, which this time features the poet himself on vocals and consists of a unique CD and book featuring sixteen tracks again based on his poetry.
		Breytenbach, who currently lives in Paris, is one of South Africa’s most important and influential Afrikaans poets and writers (and also a well-known painter).
		While the impact and meaning of the poetry takes a while to sift through and follow, the initial impression is of a fascinating and evocative album of varied moods and styles.
	www.rhythmrecords.co.za /breytenbach_mondmusiek.html (282 words)

	NYU - Press Release
		South African writer, painter, and activist Breyten Breytenbach was born into a distinguished Afrikaner family in 1939.
		As has been noted by critics, for Breytenbach writing and painting “‘are equal expressions of one and the same creative energy’...
		In 1992 Breyten Breytenbach co-founded the Gorée Institute in Senegal, a Centre for Democracy, Development and Culture, and in 1995 he co-founded the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Natal.
	www.nyu.edu /publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_FIRST2.shtml (529 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 98047017 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Breyten Breytenbach's meditations are informed by a profound intelligence and wit and an overriding sense of the past.
		Breytenbach begins Dog Heart with his own beginning in Bonnievale, South Africa, and looks at his homeland through the prism of memory to uncover a new landscape.
		We read of the ouvolk, the moon and stars and trees and shrubs and rocks that are really petrified shamans, subterranean travelers, death dancers who change themselves into rocks to become invisible to those who invade the land.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/har021/98047017.html (181 words)

	Breyten Breytenbach
		Breyten Breytenbach is a renowned South African writer whose opposition to apartheid resulted in his being convicted of terrorism and spending seven years in prison.
		I do not want to equate your glorious nation with the deplorable image of a president who, at best, appears to be a bar-room braggart.
		A veteran of the fight against apartheid says that might is not right.
	www.thenation.com /directory/bios/breyten_breytenbach (63 words)

	World Social Forum
		South African activist and writer Breyten Breytenbach is part of the international delegation of poets and writers attending the World Social Forum (WSF) to fight for social justice and progressive change.
		A committed opponent of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons.
		Breyten Breytenbach, ativista e escritor da África do Sul, faz parte da delegação internacional de poetas e escritores, participando do Fórum Social Mundial (FSM) na luta por justiça social e por um mundo melhor.
	www.rattapallax.com /wsf.htm (1089 words)

	Breytenbach, Breyten; Breytenbac: Lady One: Of Love and Other Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Breytenbach, Breyten; Breytenbac: Lady One: Of Love and Other Poems
		The texture of nostalgic, sometimes bitter memories of childhood in Breytenbach's African homeland is as palpable here as the vigorous exultation of love found amid the ruins of an earlier life.
		And pervading all the experience rendered is a sense of wonder and awe that "the light lies silvery smooth / in the furrows dug by the farmer / to lead astray the drought / and bring succour to the runner beans, / the maize, tomatoes, melons, peppers, / onions, garlic, potatoes / and love."
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=I0OE9 (103 words)

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