Moving to a new town is never easy for anyone.
Moving to a new town is never easy for anyone.
We often see children struggling to fit in at new schools. What more about having to try and fit in into a new area and make new friends and having to leave them sooner than expected.
Brink's magistrate father moved from dorp to dorp.
Growing up in different towns was no different for André Brink.
In this memoir, Fork in the Road, Brink takes us through his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where "innocence was always surrounded by violence".
He discovered his love for words at a very young age.
He knew then that whether he became a train driver, a painter or anything else, writing should be part of it.
Language became important to him when he was only six years old. At the time he was living in Jagersfontein in the Free State, where English was a foreign language to people there.
Everything happened in Afrikaans in the area.
At age 12, Brink wrote his first novel. The book was 77-pages long and it recounted the blood-curdling adventures of four children on holiday among cannibals and wild animals in Nigeria.
Brink first came to prominence as part of the literary movement known as the Sestigers - young Afrikaans-language writers daring to be different in the 1960s.
These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends.
Chapter five - Ingrid - is dedicated to the woman who drove him mad with love. It's a glimpse of his romance with the award-winning poet Ingrid Jonker.
The two met in April 1963 at Jan Rabie's Green Point home.
"It was love at first sight, for both of us - even though I was married and she had been in a relationship with Jack Cope."
A peep into André Brink's life
Moving to a new town is never easy for anyone.
Moving to a new town is never easy for anyone.
We often see children struggling to fit in at new schools. What more about having to try and fit in into a new area and make new friends and having to leave them sooner than expected.
Brink's magistrate father moved from dorp to dorp.
Growing up in different towns was no different for André Brink.
In this memoir, Fork in the Road, Brink takes us through his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where "innocence was always surrounded by violence".
He discovered his love for words at a very young age.
He knew then that whether he became a train driver, a painter or anything else, writing should be part of it.
Language became important to him when he was only six years old. At the time he was living in Jagersfontein in the Free State, where English was a foreign language to people there.
Everything happened in Afrikaans in the area.
At age 12, Brink wrote his first novel. The book was 77-pages long and it recounted the blood-curdling adventures of four children on holiday among cannibals and wild animals in Nigeria.
Brink first came to prominence as part of the literary movement known as the Sestigers - young Afrikaans-language writers daring to be different in the 1960s.
These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends.
Chapter five - Ingrid - is dedicated to the woman who drove him mad with love. It's a glimpse of his romance with the award-winning poet Ingrid Jonker.
The two met in April 1963 at Jan Rabie's Green Point home.
"It was love at first sight, for both of us - even though I was married and she had been in a relationship with Jack Cope."
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