of die Sestigers, "literature in exile in its own country". In her biography of dissident poet Ingrid Jonker, Louise Viljoen called die Sestigers, "a cultural...
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André Brink (category Sestigers)
significant Afrikaans dissident intellectual and literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikaner people...
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Jan Rabie (category Sestigers)
George, and was the writer of twenty-one works. He was included under the Sestigers, a group of influential Afrikaans writers of the 1960s. Note: The English...
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Elsa Joubert (category Sestigers)
Antoinette Murray Joubert OIS (19 October 1922 – 14 June 2020) was a Sestigers Afrikaans-language writer. She rose to prominence with her novel Die swerfjare...
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Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author and a key member of the South African Sestigers literary movement. Charl du Plessis, pianist. Denis Earp, chief of the...
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Breyten Breytenbach (category Sestigers)
song "Breyten" to him on their 2005 album Jaio.Musika.Hil. Poetry portal Sestigers Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award "Breyten Breytenbach". South...
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mentor and father figure to the Afrikaans literary movement known as die Sestigers; whom he convinced into speaking truth to power about the 1948–1994 rule...
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Etienne Leroux (category Sestigers)
December 1989) was an Afrikaans writer and a member of the South African Sestigers literary movement. Etienne Leroux was born in Oudtshoorn in the Western...
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Abraham H. de Vries (category Sestigers)
the most respected and beloved in Afrikaans language literature in the Sestigers. De Vries was born in Ladismith in the then Cape Province in 1937. He...
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rugby union player Etienne Leroux, writer and member of the South African Sestigers literary movement. Paul Cilliers, philosopher and complexity theorist...
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