Alan Stewart Paton 11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988 was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope. Contents 1Family 2Early career 3Later career 4Opposition to apartheid 5Other works 6Selected works 7Awards and honours 8See also 9Notes 10Further reading 11External links Family Paton
Deon Godfrey Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, writing in Afrikaans. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has also written numerous scripts for television and film. Contents 1Life and career 2Novels 2.1Bibliography 2.1.1Benny Griessel series 2.2Film rights awarded for novels 3Awards and nominations 4References 5External links Life and career Meyer was born
Phaswane Mpe 10 September 1970 – 12 December 2004 was a South African poet and novelist. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a lecturer in African literature. He did his master’s degree in publishing at Oxford Brookes University in 1998. His debut novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, was published in 2001.
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe born 24 October 1958, also known as Gcina Mhlophe, is a South African anti-apartheid activist, actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author. Storytelling is a deeply traditional activity in South Africa, and Mhlophe is one of the few woman storytellers in a country dominated by males. She does her work through charismatic performances, working to preserve
Dalene Matthee 13 October 1938 – 20 February 2005 was a South African author best known for her four Forest Novels, written in and around the Knysna Forest. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic, and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. Contents 1Biography 2Bibliography 2.1The Forest Novels 2.2Other published works 3Legacy
Pule Lechesa born 1976 is a black South African essayist, literary critic, poet, and publisher. His published books include Four Free State Authors (2005), The Evolution of Free State Black Literature (2006), and, Omoseye Bolaji…on Awards, Authors, Literature (2007). Pule Lechesa is the founder and main editor of Phoenix Press Publishers (in Ladybrand), which continues to publish sundry fiction, poetry, short stories,
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven 13 August 1873 – 15 July 1932, who published under his initials C.J. Langenhoven, was a South African poet who played a major role in the development of Afrikaans literature and cultural history. His poetry was one of the then young language’s foremost promoters. He is best known to have written the words for
Nadine Gordimer 20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014 was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a writer “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”. Gordimer’s writing
Damon Galgut born 12 November 1963 is a South African playwright and novelist. Contents 1Life and career 2Personal life 3Awards and honours 4Works 5References 6External links Life and career Galgut was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1963. His family, of European stock, had strong ties to the South African judiciary. When he was six years old, Galgut
Graeme Friedman is a clinical psychologist and an award-winning writer whose short stories have appeared in anthologies published internationally. His book The Fossil Artist (Jacana, 2010), a novel about crime, authenticity, what it means to be human and how we come to love, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Best First Book). He is also the author of the critically