Biography

André Brink is one of South Africa’s most distinguished writers. Playwright, novelist, essayist and teacher, he is the author of over twenty works of fiction. An Instant in the Wind (1976) and Rumours of Rain (1978) were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Other Side of Silence (2002) won a Commonwealth Writers regional award for Best Book in 2003. He has been made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government. In 1992 he was awarded the Monismanien Human Rights Award by the University of Uppsala for making known the injustice of apartheid to the wider world. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. In 2009 he published his memoirs, A Fork in the Road.

The author's published work includes:

• File on a Diplomat, Longmans, 1967
• Looking on Darkness, ;W. H. Allen, 1974
• An Instant in the Wind, W. H. Allen, 1976
• Rumours of Rain, W. H. Allen, 1978
• A Dry White Season, W. H. Allen, 1979
• A Chain of Voices, Faber and Faber, 1981
• Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege, Faber and Faber, 1983
• The Wall of the Plague, Faber and Faber, 1984
• A Land Apart: A South African Reader (editor with J. M. Coetzee), Faber and Faber, 1986
• States of Emergency, Faber and Faber, 1988
• An Act of Terror, Secker & Warburg, 1991
• On the Contrary, Secker & Warburg, 1993
• The First Life of Adamastor, Secker & Waburg, 1993
• Imaginings of Sand, Secker & Warburg, 1996
• Reinventing a Continent: Writing and Politics in South Africa, Secker & Warburg, 1996
• Devil's Valley, Secker & Warburg, 1998
• The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino, Macmillan, 1998
• The Rights of Desire, Secker & Warburg, 2000
• The Other Side of Silence, Secker & Warburg, 2002
• Before I Forget, Secker & Warburg, 2004
• Praying Mantis, Secker & Warburg, 2005
• The Blue Door, Harvill Secker, 2007
• A Fork in the Road, Harvill Secker, 2009