Book translated by Olga Rojas
(Bonnievale, South Africa , 1939). Writer, painter and activist South African. Widely recognized as a great poet of the Afrikaner language. strong opponent of apartheid. left his country in 1960, settling in Paris in 1962. When he returned to his homeland in clandestine visit in 1975, he was arrested on charges of terrorism and sedition, and was jailed for seven years. From this experience came his writing Hospice Semi-fiction: Note-mirror of a novel (1983) and True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1985). Breytenbach returned to Paris when he was released in 1982. He has written vivid accounts three of his return to South Africa, A station in Paradise (1976), Return to Paradise (1993), and the dog Heart (1999), which makes a trip to the past for identity while expressing bitter disappointment with post-apartheid South Africa . Breytenbach is also known as a painter. His poems written between 1964 and 2006 are included in Atrapavientos (2007).
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