An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.

"The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. . . . No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime."—The New Yorker
This eclectic and generous work full of wisdom and wit is... [More...]

In 1975, Breyten Breytenbach, a young Afrikaner poet, painter, and ANC activist in exile, made a secret visit to his native South Africa. He was arrested, charged with treason, and imprisoned for seven years. Much has changed since those days: Nelson... [More...]

Hertzog Prize winner Breyten Breytenbach's imaginative and inspirational elegy to Palestine's greatest poet.

Breytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and mythologies of Africa, but in reality his homeland is an... [More...]

J. M. Coetzee has described Breyten Breytenbach as "able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give life." "Windcatcher" is a collection of Breytenbach's... [More...]

Breyten Breytenbach composed this wondrous ship of thought, this docu-dream, during a horrific period of incarceration.

"Please deliver me, Lady, of prattle and cant
"As I bury one hundred years of war and want
Evoking an extraordinary range of settings and images—from "Africa where blood blackens / and tiny desert creatures have to lick / the dew from their... [More...]

Bitesize (yet with plenty to digest) lyrical, philosophical, provocative prose pieces with Breytenbach's original paintings.

This volume - a Festschrift in honour of the renowned Acts of the Apostles-scholar Eckhard Pl]macher- contains various articles on several aspects of Luke's Acts of the