Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach (1939–2024) was a South African poet, novelist, and painter renowned as a leading Afrikaans writer and fierce critic of apartheid, who spent seven years imprisoned for his activism before becoming a French citizen. His notable works include Die ysterkoei moet sweet (1964), Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel (1983), and The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1984), earning him major awards such as the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2017), Hertzog Prize (multiple times), and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1985). BBC News