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André Brink

(André Philippus Brink)
South Africa (1935 - 2015)

André Brink was one of South Africa's most distinguished writers. His novels include A Dry White Season which was made into a movie starring Marlon Brando.

Novels

   File On a Diplomat (1967)
   Dessert Wine in South Africa (1974)
   Looking on Darkness (1974)
   An Instant in the Wind (1976)
   Rumours of Rain (1978)
   A Dry White Season (1979)
   A Chain of Voices (1982)
   The Wall of the Plague (1984)
   The Ambassador (1985)
   States of Emergency (1988)
   An Act of Terror (1991)
   The First Life of Adamastor (1993)
   Cape of Storms (1993)
   On the Contrary (1993)
   Imaginings of Sand (1996)
   Devil's Valley (1998)
   The Rights of Desire (2000)
   The Other Side of Silence (2002)
   Before I Forget (2004)
   Praying Mantis (2005)
   The Blue Door (2007)
   Other Lives (2008)
   Philida (2012)

Collections

Met 'n Glimlag (2006)

Anthologies edited

A Land Apart (1986) (with J M Coetzee)

Non fiction

   Map Makers (1983)
   Writing in a State of Seige (1983)
   Reinventions (1996)
   Reinventing a Continent (1996)
   The Novel (1998)
   A Fork in the Road (2009)

Awards

	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1976) : An Instant in the Wind
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : Rumours of Rain
	International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (1998) : Imaginings of Sand
	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : Praying Mantis
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2012) : Philida

André Brink recommends

Gardening At Night (2003)
Diane Awerbuck
"Feisty, and funky, and funny...a remarkable reading adventure."

Mortals (2003)
Norman Rush
"One of the most exhilarating novels I have read for a long time... quite dazzling."

One Tongue Singing (2005)
Susan Mann
"Sensetive and sharp and charged with authentic passion, this is a book that sings in a tongue of liquid fire."

Moxyland (2008)
Lauren Beukes
"A technicolor, jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell, like A Clockwork Orange, it has the makings of a cult success."

Wall Of Days (2011)
Alastair Bruce
"A consummate storyteller who appears well set to become a defining novelist of our time."

The White Room (2019)
Craig Higginson
"Craig Higginson is at the vanguard of the latest and most exciting novelists in South Africa, offering a barometer of best to be expected from the newest wave of writing in the country."

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