his novel A Chain of Voices, his family was beset by tragedy, when his nephew Adri Brink was murdered in front of his wife and children in their Gauteng home. He died on a flight from Amsterdam to South Africa from Belgium, where he had received an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain. He was married five times. Brink's son, Anton Brink, is an artist. Works Novels The Ambassador Looking on Darkness (1973) An Instant in the Wind (1975) shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rumours of Rain (1978) – shortlisted for the Booker Prize A Dry White Season (1979) – Martin Luther King Memorial Prize A Chain of Voices (1982) The Wall of the Plague States of Emergency (1989) An Act of Terror (1992) The First Life of Adamastor (1993) On the Contrary (1994) Imaginings of Sand (1996) Devil's Valley (1998) The Rights of Desire (2000) The Other Side of Silence (Anderkant die Stilte) (2002) Before I Forget (2004) The Other Side of Silence (2004) Praying Mantis (2005) The Blue Door (2006) Other Lives (2008) Philida (2012) Memoirs A Fork in the Road (2009) Essays Languages of the Novel: A Lover's Reflections (1998) See also Evarcha brinki: a South African jumping spider, named after Brink in 2011 Notes External links André Brink on Books LIVE 1935 births 2015 deaths Afrikaans-language poets Exophonic writers People from Phumelela Local Municipality Afrikaner people Afrikaner anti-apartheid activists South African people of Dutch descent White South African anti-apartheid activists Afrikaans-language writers Sestigers South African male novelists South African translators Translators from Spanish Translators from French Translators from English Translators to Afrikaans Prix Médicis étranger winners Hertzog Prize winners for drama Hertzog Prize winners for prose North-West University alumni Academic staff of the University of Cape Town Recipients of the Order of Ikhamanga 20th-century South African novelists 21st-century South African novelists 20th-century South African male writers 21st-century South African male writers 20th-century translators