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Audio Interview with André Brink

Andre Brink

Written originally in his native language, Afrikaans, André Brink's novel, Looking on Darkness, was banned by the South African apartheid government. Poet, novelist, essayist, teacher and author of A Dry White Season, The Wall of the Plague and An Act of Terror, André Brink talks to Don Swaim about writing in two languages, apartheid and oppression in this 1985 interview.

Listen to the André Brink interview with Don Swaim, February 12, 1985, RealAudio
(27 min. 41 sec.)

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