André Philippus Brink,OIS(29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist. He wrote in bothAfrikaansand English and taught English at theUniversity of Cape Town.
In the 1960s Brink,Ingrid Jonker,Etienne LerouxandBreyten Breytenbachwere key figures in the significantAfrikaansliterary movement known asDieSestigers("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against theapartheidgovernment, and also to bring intoAfrikaans literaturethe influence of contemporary English and French trends. While Brink's early novels were especially concerned withapartheid, his later work engaged the new range of issues posed by life in a democratic South Africa