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Chris Barnard
Chris Barnard (1939-2015) is a celebrated Afrikaans novelist, journalist, reviewer, playwright and scriptwriter for radio, film and TV and farmer.
Not to be confused with the renowned South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard (often also referred to as Chris Barnard in the press)[1]
Biography
Born Christiaan Johan Barnard in Mataffin, Nelspruit, on July 15, 1939 and matriculated at Hoërskool Nelspruit in 1957. He then studied at the University of Pretoria, with Afrikaans-Nederlands and Art History as majors.
He was friends with many Afrikaans writers and a part of the literary movement known as "Die Sestigers" ("The writers of the Sixties")[2] and became a key figure in the later Afrikaanse Skrywersgilde ("Afrikaans Writers' Guild").
He married his first wife, Annette, in 1962, with whom he had three sons: Johan, Stephan and Tian. After divorcing her in 1978, he married the actress and film maker Katinka Heyns, with whom he had a fourth son, Simon. Barnard died of a heart attack on 28 December, 2015.
His writing career
A well-known and respecte
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Christiaan Johan Barnard (aka Chris Barnard) is a South African author born July 15, 1939. Well known for penning various Afrikaans novels, novellas, columns, youth novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, film scripts and television dramas.
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Barnard was born in Mataffin in the Nelspruit district of South Africa, and matriculated at Nelspruit High in 1957. He majored in Afrikaans-Nederlands and History of Art at the University of Pretoria.
In the 1960s he and several other authors were notable figures in the Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends.
During 1962 Barnard married his first wife, Anette, and together they produced three sons; Johan, Stephan and Tian. After divorcing his first wife in 1978, he weds his second wife, Katinka Heyns. His fourth son, S
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Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon (1922–2001)
"Chris Barnard" redirects here. For other uses, see Chris Barnard (disambiguation).
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.[1][2] On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system.[3][4][5][6] Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading.[7][8][9] Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and live
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