Breyten Breytenbach is one of the major postwar poets writing in Afrikaans, the language of the Afrikaners, South Africans of Dutch descent. He gained an international reputation with the publication of his first long work written in English, The True...

PAINTER, poet, uncompromising critic of the cruelties of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach is a man whose life and art are profoundly marked by place. In exile from South Africa, in vexed flight across Europe, or in lonely contemplation of the grim square-footage of a Pretorian...

Judith Lütge Coullie and J. U. Jacobs, eds. a.k.a Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to His Writings and Paintings. (Cross/Cultures 75). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2004. 337 pp. $94.00 Cloth. $36.00. Paper. The title of Coullie and Jacob's collection of essays on the contemporary South...

In the following essay, Coetzee examines Breytenbach's notions of self and other in his writings during and after his prison sentence.

In the following review of In Africa Even the Flies Are Happy: Selected Poems 1964–1977, Des Pres surveys Breytenbach's works and attempts to assess his importance and success as a political poet.

In the following essay, Roberts discusses Mouroir and The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, both of which Breytenbach wrote during his prison term in South Africa.