| LC control no. | n 79018846 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9369.3.B67 South African English PT6592.12.R4 Afrikaans |
| Personal name heading | Breytenbach, Breyten |
| Variant(s) | Lasarus, B. B. |
| See also | For works of this author entered under other names, search also under Blom, Jan, Afrika, Jan Blom, Jan Afrika, Jan |
| Other standard no. | 0000000120330726 |
| Associated place | Paris (France) |
| Located | South Africa |
| Birth date | 1939-09-16 |
| Place of birth | Bonnievale (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | Wellington Hugenot High School (Bonnievale, South Africa) |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Poets Authors |
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| Found in | His Katastrofes, 1964. Cont. authors online, Oct. 13, 2005 (Breytenbach, Breyten; SA poet, writer, also known as Jan Blom; b. Sept. 16, 1939 or 1940, in Bonnievale or Wellington, South Africa; naturalized French citizen; res. Paris, France; prof. at New York Univ.) Wikipedia, Oct. 12, 2005 (Breytenbach, Breyten; b. Sept. 16, 1939; South African writer and painter with French citizenship; lists of titles include: Paper Flower (Papierblom)) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Breytenbach, Breyten; painter, Afrikaner nationalist, antiapartheid activist, poet, autobiographer / memoirist; born in 1939 in Bonnievale, South Africa; graduated from Wellington Hugenot High School (1957); moved to Paris and published a first anthology of poetry and a book of short stories, gaining international attention (1964); charged with treason in South Africa, which resulted in offering a personal version of the trial in the memoir True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1984); became distinguished with poetry in Afrikaans, prose works in English, and opposition to apartheid; honors include, among others, the Afrikaner Press Corporation Prize (1964)) |
| National bib agency no. | 0004A8827E |
| Associated language | afr eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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