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Etienne Leroux

South African writer

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contribution to Afrikaans literature

  • In South African literature: In Afrikaans

    …the Sestigers were the novelists Etienne Leroux and André P. Brink and the poet Breyten Breytenbach. In a series of thematically linked novels published in the 1960s, Leroux explored the dilemma of modern Afrikaners in search of a myth, the inexhaustible fantasy and satire of his work making it unique…

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  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: Afrikaans

    Jan Rabie, Etienne Leroux, Dolf van Niekerk, André P. Brink, Abraham de Vries, and Chris Barnard experimented with the novel and moved into areas largely forbidden until that time, such as sex and atheism. Brink’s Lobola vir die lewe (1962; “Pledge for Life”) and Orgie (1965; “Orgy”)…

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