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South African writer Andre Brink, a literature professor at the University of Cape Town and one of the most outspoken critics of the apartheid regime, has died aged 79.
According to the BBC Brink died on Friday night on board a flight to Cape Town after visiting Belgium where he had received an honorary doctorate.
In the 1960s, he was a key figure in the Afrikaans literary movement Die Sestigers, the movement that used Afrikaans to speak against the apartheid movement.
Brink wrote both in Afrikaans as well as English. His novels have been translated in more than 30 languages.
Some of his books, including A Dry White Season which was turned into a film, were banned in South Africa.
Other novels include Looking on Darkness and Philida for which he was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012.
#SouthAfrica #Apartheid
According to the BBC Brink died on Friday night on board a flight to Cape Town after visiting Belgium where he had received an honorary doctorate.
In the 1960s, he was a key figure in the Afrikaans literary movement Die Sestigers, the movement that used Afrikaans to speak against the apartheid movement.
Brink wrote both in Afrikaans as well as English. His novels have been translated in more than 30 languages.
Some of his books, including A Dry White Season which was turned into a film, were banned in South Africa.
Other novels include Looking on Darkness and Philida for which he was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012.
#SouthAfrica #Apartheid
