{"id":2745,"date":"2017-09-28T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=2745"},"modified":"2017-09-28T11:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:02:30","slug":"a-dry-white-season","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=2745","title":{"rendered":"A Dry White Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andr\u00e9 Philippus Brink<\/strong>, <small><a title=\"Order of Ikhamanga\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_Ikhamanga\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-size: small;\">OIS<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/small> (29 May 1935 \u2013 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist. He wrote in both <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Afrikaans language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrikaans_language\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Afrikaans<\/span><\/u><\/a> and English and was a Professor of English at the <a title=\"University of Cape Town\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cape_Town\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">University of Cape Town<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s he, <a title=\"Ingrid Jonker\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingrid_Jonker\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Ingrid Jonker<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a title=\"Etienne Leroux\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Etienne_Leroux\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Etienne Leroux<\/span><\/u><\/a> and <a title=\"Breyten Breytenbach\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breyten_Breytenbach\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Breyten Breytenbach<\/span><\/u><\/a> were key figures in the significant <a title=\"Afrikaans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrikaans\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Afrikaans<\/span><\/u><\/a> literary movement known as <i>Die <a title=\"Sestigers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sestigers\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Sestigers<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i> (&#8220;The Sixty-ers&#8221;). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the <a title=\"Apartheid\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">apartheid<\/span><\/u><\/a> government, and also to bring into <a title=\"Afrikaans literature\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrikaans_literature\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Afrikaans literature<\/span><\/u><\/a> the influence of contemporary English and French trends. While Brink&#8217;s early novels were especially concerned with <a title=\"Apartheid\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">apartheid<\/span><\/u><\/a>, his later work engaged the new range of issues posed by life in a democratic South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Euzhan Palcy<\/strong> is a film director, writer and producer from <a title=\"Martinique\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martinique\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Martinique<\/span><\/u><\/a>, French West Indies. She is notable for being the first black woman director produced by a major Hollywood studio (<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"MGM\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MGM\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">MGM<\/span><\/u><\/a>), for <i><a title=\"A Dry White Season\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Dry_White_Season\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">A Dry White Season<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i>, as well as being the only woman filmmaker to have directed <a title=\"Marlon Brando\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlon_Brando\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Marlon Brando<\/span><\/u><\/a>, whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years. Palcy is the first black director (male or female) to direct an actor to an Oscar nomination and the first black director to win a <a title=\"C\u00e9sar Award\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%C3%A9sar_Award\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">C\u00e9sar Award<\/span><\/u><\/a>, the highest French film award. She is also the first black director to win of a Venice Film Festival Award (<a title=\"Silver Lion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_Lion\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Silver Lion<\/span><\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IFVIG8hTym4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9 Philippus Brink, OIS (29 May 1935 \u2013 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and was a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s he, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans literary movement<span class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2745","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2745\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}