Andre P. Brink
An Act of Terror is a novel by André Brink and stands among his most noted works of fiction.
Brink was born on 29 May 1935 in Vrede, South Africa, and was educated at North-West University. He worked as a university teacher alongside his writing career, producing fiction in both Afrikaans and English, and also working as a translator and literary critic. He was associated with the Sestigers movement. Over the course of his career he received a number of significant honours, including the Prix Médicis étranger, the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Silver Order of Ikhamanga, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour — recognition that spanned South African, British, and French cultural institutions.
Brink died on 6 February 2015. The Library of Congress records him under the authorized form "Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935–2015," a designation that reflects a writing life conducted in two languages and acknowledged by institutions across multiple continents.
Quotes by Andre P. Brink
How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.Alone. Alone to the very end. I… every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world?