A01=Breyten Breytenbach
Author_Breyten Breytenbach
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Product details
- ISBN 9781931859912
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 138 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In dialogue with the dead and living - Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Darwish, Barack Obama - internationally distinguished South African artist and writer Breyten Breytenbach's new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political traumas and the renewal of hope.
A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist and prolific writer. He has authored numerous novels, short story compilations, essays and dramatic works. From 1975- 1982, he was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons. Today Professor Breytenbach is a Global Distinguished Professor of creative writing at New York University.
