Breyten Breytenbach at the Kelly Writers House, December 4, 2008

A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist and author of over 30 books of poetry, fiction, essays and plays in both Afrikaans and English. A committed opponent of apartheid, Breytenbach founded the resistance group "Okhela" for which he wrote the platform. From 1975-1982 was a political prisoner for two terms of isolation in South African prisons. His most famous work is treated in four volumes of thisOdyssey: A Season in Paradise (1973), Confessions of a terrorist true Albino (1983), Return to Paradise (1991), and Dog Heart: A Memoir (1999) have been translated into more than a dozen languages. For more information or to make a full coverage of this event, see View writing.upenn.edu