Sestigers
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The Sestigers also known as the Beweging van Sestig (the movement of sixty), were a group of influential Afrikaans
-language writers in the 1960s started by André Brink
and Breyten Breytenbach
, which also included Etienne Leroux
, Jan Rabie
, Ingrid Jonker
, Adam Small
, Bartho Smit, Chris Barnard
, Hennie Aucamp
, Dolf van Niekerk, Abraham H. de Vries and Elsa Joubert
.
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
-language writers in the 1960s started by André Brink
André Brink
André Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town....
and Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship.-Biography:Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas...
, which also included Etienne Leroux
Etienne Leroux
Etienne Leroux was an influential Afrikaans author and a key member of the South African Sestigers literary movement. He was born on June 13 as Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux, son of S.P. Le Roux, a South African Minister of Agriculture....
, Jan Rabie
Jan Rabie
Jan Sebastian Rabie was an Afrikaans writer of short stories, novels and other literary works. He was born in George, and was the writer of twenty-one works...
, Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker , was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages...
, Adam Small
Adam Small (writer)
Adam Small is a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He is noted as a "coloured" writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation...
, Bartho Smit, Chris Barnard
Chris Barnard (author)
Christiaan Johan Barnard is a South African author born July 15, 1939. Well known for penning various Afrikaans novels, novellas, columns, youth novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, film scripts and television dramas....
, Hennie Aucamp
Hennie Aucamp
Hennie Aucamp is an Afrikaans poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic. He grew up on a farm in the Stormberg highlands and matriculated in Jamestown before continuing his higher education at the University of Stellenbosch...
, Dolf van Niekerk, Abraham H. de Vries and Elsa Joubert
Elsa Joubert
Elsa Joubert , born as Elsabé Antoinette Murray on 19 October 1922 in Paarl, is an Afrikaans-speaking South African writer. Elsa Joubert rose to prominence with her novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, which was translated into 13 languages and also staged as a drama.Elsa Joubert grew up in...
.