Breyten Breytenbach: Painting the eye

by Breyten Breytenbach

English, Afrikaans, French

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party-led South African Government. He is also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important living poets in Afrikaans literature.