André Brink was a South African novelist, essayist, and poet. He was a key figure in the significant Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends. While Brink's early novels were especially concerned with apartheid, his later work engaged the new range of issues posed by life in a democratic South Africa. This interview is part of a Villon Films collection of unedited interviews with South African writers, journalists and activists made in the late ‘80s, 90s mostly on the subject of censorship and films.
- Place discussed
- South Africa
- Published in
- Vancouver, BC
