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André Brink

(André Philippus Brink)
South Africa (1935 - 2015)

André Brink was one of South Africa's most distinguished writers. His novels include A Dry White Season which was made into a movie starring Marlon Brando.

Novels

   File On a Diplomat (1967)
   Dessert Wine in South Africa (1974)
   Looking on Darkness (1974)
   An Instant in the Wind (1976)
   Rumours of Rain (1978)
   A Dry White Season (1979)
   A Chain of Voices (1982)
   The Wall of the Plague (1984)
   The Ambassador (1985)
   States of Emergency (1988)
   An Act of Terror (1991)
   The First Life of Adamastor (1993)
   Cape of Storms (1993)
   On the Contrary (1993)
   Imaginings of Sand (1996)
   Devil's Valley (1998)
   The Rights of Desire (2000)
   The Other Side of Silence (2002)
   Before I Forget (2004)
   Praying Mantis (2005)
   The Blue Door (2007)
   Other Lives (2008)
   Philida (2012)

Collections

Met 'n Glimlag (2006)

Anthologies edited

A Land Apart (1986) (with J M Coetzee)

Non fiction show

Award nominations

	2012 Booker Prize (longlist) : Philida
	2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Praying Mantis
	1998 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Imaginings of Sand
	1978 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Rumours of Rain
	1976 Booker Prize (shortlist) : An Instant in the Wind

André Brink recommends

The White Room (2019)
Craig Higginson
"Craig Higginson is at the vanguard of the latest and most exciting novelists in South Africa, offering a barometer of best to be expected from the newest wave of writing in the country."

Moxyland (2008)
Lauren Beukes
"A technicolor, jazzy rollercoaster ride into a dazzling hell, like A Clockwork Orange, it has the makings of a cult success."

One Tongue Singing (2005)
Susan Mann
"Sensetive and sharp and charged with authentic passion, this is a book that sings in a tongue of liquid fire."