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Andre Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is the author of the eleven novels in English, including A Dry White Season, A Chain of Voices, An Act of Terror, The First Life of Adamstor and On the Contrary. He has three times won South Africa's most important literary prize, the CAN Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty-nine languages. In 1980 he received the Martin Luther King Prize, and in France the Prix Medicis Etranger. In 1982 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and in 1987 was named Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He has three sons and a daughter.
A courageous self-assessment... interesting and pivotal... done with sincerity and intelligence * Times Literary Supplement * Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer * The Guardian * One of South Africa's most eloquent literary voices -- Libby Brooks * Guardian * One of South Africa's most distinguished writers and a key figure in the modernisation of the Afrikaans novel * Observer *
