A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist, and writer of poetry, novels, short-stories, essays, and dramatic works.
From 1975 to 1982, he was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons. His most renowned work is the four-volume memoir of this odyssey: A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Return to Paradise, and Dog Heart: A Memoir.
Breytenbach's poetry collections include The Iron Cow Must Sweat, Footscript, and Lady One.
His paintings portray surreal human and animal figures, many of which are shown in captivity. He has exhibited his artwork in cities around the world, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, Brussels, and Edinburgh, and New York City.
Breytenbach has been honored with awards such as the APB Prize, CAN Award, Allan Paton Award for Literature, Rapport Prize, Hertzog Prize, Reina Prinsen-Geerling Prize, Van der Hoogt Prize, Jan Campert Award, and Jacobus van Looy Prize for Literature and Art.
He has taught at the University of Natal, Princeton University, and the University of Cape Town.
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