Brink, Andre (1935-...), is one of South Africa's best-known writers. He gained recognition for works that opposed South Africa's former policy of racial segregation called apartheid. The South African government ended apartheid in the early 1990's. Much of Brink's fiction deals with the suppression of blacks in South Africa by whites. In his novels, Brink writes about the historical roots of apartheid as well as the evils of the policy in South Africa. Brink writes in both the Afrikaans language and in English. His novel Kennis van die Aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans novel to be banned in South Africa. He translated the work into English in 1974 as Looking on Darkness.