Breyten Breytenbach
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 16, 1939
- Died
- November 24, 2024 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa
Biography
Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.
