Intimate Stranger: A Writing Book - Softcover

Breyten Breytenbach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980033098 ISBN 13: 9780980033090

Publisher: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS, 2010

Synopsis

'In this inspiring, insightful, and heart-warming meditation, Breyten Breytenbach has given us a masterpiece - a term I use with all due caution. . . . As unpretentious as a comfortable old shirt, this is a book to be read and reread, to be cherished by anyone who values the enlightenment found in great poetry of all kinds.'-Sam Hamill

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About the Author

An outspoken advocate for social justice, Breyten Breytenbach, is a poet, novelist, memorist, essayist and visual artist. His paintings, drawings, and collages have been exhibited around the world. In 1994 Breytenbach received the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise. He won The prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999, and again in 2008 for Die Windvanger (Windcatcher), for which he also received the University of Johannesburg Prize. Breytenbach is the author of A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, All One Horse, Mouroir, Notes from the Middle World, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, Lady One, and Voice Over: a nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980033098
• ISBN 13: 9780980033090
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248