Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach

September 16, 1939 (85 years old) in Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa

Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.

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