Quote of the day
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Breyten Breytenbach
Born: September 16, 1939 (age 83)
Bio: Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter of great eminence. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region. He also holds French citizenship.
Known for:
- All one horse (1990)
- Mouroir (1984)
- A season in paradise (1980)
- A veil of footsteps (2008)