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Andre Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is the author of fourteen novels in English, including An Instant in the Wind, A Dry White Season, A Chain of Voices, An Act of Terror, On the Contrary, Imaginings of Sand and Devil's Valley, most recently, The Rights of Desire. He has won South Africa's most important literary prize, the CNA Award, three times and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in France and the Premio Mondello in Italy. His novels have been translated into thirty languages. Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.
Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer * Guardian * An astonishing performance... His most profound and most beautiful novel-It could well be Brink's most artistically complex and complete achievement * Irish Times * Harsh, visionary and unsettling * Time Out * Compelling to read and hauntingly vivid... Suffering, humiliation, love, revenge companionship: to each Brink gives a multi-faceted, diamantine brilliance... Cries out to be read * Scotsman * Brink is one of the crucial writers of our time... A truly horrifying tale, but compassionately and compellingly told * Glasgow Herald *
