André Brink R I P

My wife just phoned and told me that André Brink passed on yesterday. I also read it in Mail and Guardian. A famous South African novelist and playwright, who wrote in both Afrikaans and English. I remember how his books touched me in 1981-82 when I spent a year in Cape Town. Books like:

An Instant in the Wind

Rumours of Rain

A Dry White Season

A Chain of Voices

We listened to him at the University of Western Cape in 2010. I wrote a blog post about the occasion. (In Swedish, though!)

He has meant a lot. To many. Also to me.

R I P

Twitter is already full of the news.