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Anti-apartheid writer Andre Brink dies
Source: BBC
7 February 2015 Last updated at 13:01 GMT
Anti-apartheid writer Andre Brink dies
South African writer Andre Brink, one of the most outspoken critics of the apartheid regime, has died.
Brink, 79, died on Friday night on board a flight to Cape Town after visiting Belgium where he had received an honorary doctorate, local media say.
Brink wrote both in Afrikaans as well as English. His novels have been translated in more than 30 languages.
Some of his books, including A Dry White Season which was turned into a film, were banned in South Africa.
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Anti-apartheid writer Andre Brink dies
South African writer Andre Brink, one of the most outspoken critics of the apartheid regime, has died.
Brink, 79, died on Friday night on board a flight to Cape Town after visiting Belgium where he had received an honorary doctorate, local media say.
Brink wrote both in Afrikaans as well as English. His novels have been translated in more than 30 languages.
Some of his books, including A Dry White Season which was turned into a film, were banned in South Africa.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31197217
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