• Alex La Guma (20 February 1924 – 11 October 1985) was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and...
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  • In the Fog of the Seasons' End (category Works by Alex La Guma)
    the Seasons' End is a 1972 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma. Like many of La Guma's other novels, it is focused on challenging the social systems...
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  • A Soviet Journey (category Works by Alex La Guma)
    socialist Alex La Guma. Writing in the early 90s, critic Roger Field described the book as one of the under examined works from La Guma's corpus, because...
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    Political activist and representative on the Cape Town City Council. Alex La Guma, South African novelist and leader of the South African Coloured People's...
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  • Cyprian Ekwensi, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Paulin Joachim, Joseph Kariuki, Alex La Guma, Camara Laye, Aké Loba, Todd Matshikiza, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Abioseh Nicol...
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  • Ikhamanga Recipient Class Year Field Ref. Bessie Head † Gold 2003 Literature Alex La Guma † Gold 2003 Literature Dumile Feni † Gold 2003 Visual arts Cecil Skotnes...
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  • Time of the Butcherbird (category Works by Alex La Guma)
    African novelist Alex La Guma. The novel was first published in 1979. Gagiano, Annie (1997). "'The Tree Goes on': Reconsidering Alex La Guma's 'Time of the...
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    novel A Walk in the Night (1962), the Cape Town journalist and writer Alex La Guma gave District Six a place in literature. South African painters, such...
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  • Burger's Daughter (1979), The Conservationist (1974), July's People (1981) Alex La Guma (South Africa): In the Fog of the Seasons' End (1972), The Stone-Country...
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  • The Stone-Country (category Works by Alex La Guma)
    Alex La Guma. The novel is set in a prison, and explores how one prisoner inspires others to pursue anti-apartheid politics. It was the last novel La...
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    Kunene (1930–2006) Richard Kunzmann (born 1976) Ellen Kuzwayo (1914–2006) Alex La Guma (1925–1985) David Lambkin (born 1947), born in the United Kingdom Anne...
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  • (Posthumous) Deep Cuts: graphic adaptations of stories by Can Themba, Alex la Guma & Bessie Head / project co-ordinator: Neil Napper; editor: Peter Esterhuysen...
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  • Bryce Courtenay Tandia by Bryce Courtenay Time of the Butcherbird by Alex la Guma Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith The...
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  • And a Threefold Cord (category Works by Alex La Guma)
    Threefold Cord is a 1964 novel by South African novelist Alex la Guma. The novel is La Guma's second, and is not heavily reviewed by critics. The novel...
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    Moses Kotane, ANC delegate to the Asian-African Conference in Bandung Alex La Guma, journalist and writer Arthur Letele, treasurer-general of ANC and medical...
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  • Thomas Keneally – Bring Larks and Heroes Milan Kundera – The Joke (Žert) Alex La Guma – The Stone-Country Ira Levin – Rosemary's Baby Joan Lindsay – Picnic...
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  • and literary essays. The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma, who was living in exile in London at the time. After the assassination...
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    the "Western Cape Protest School" constituted by Wannenburgh, Rive, Alex La Guma, and James Matthews—who occasionally met at Hoogendyk's Rondebosch home...
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  • American children's writer and writer on style (born 1899) October 11 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (born 1925) October 24...
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  • Clark, Okigbo and Soyinka, poetry by Bakare Gbadamosi (Okiri, 1961), Alex La Guma (A Walk in the Night and Other Stories, 1962), Dennis Brutus (Sirens...
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  • Christopher Hope (born 1944) Cynthia Jele (living) Fred Khumalo (born 1966) Alex La Guma (1925–1985) Mandla Langa (born 1950) Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020)...
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  • Al Qasim, Adunis, Edward El Kharrat, Mulk Raj Anand, Ousmane Sembène, Alex La Guma, Hiroshi Noma, Anatoly Sofronov, Ahmed Sékou Touré and Agostinho Neto...
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  • Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (died 2019) February 20 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (died 1985) February 22...
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  • Richard, ed. 1963 Quartet: New voices from South Africa. Short stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Richard Rive and Alf Wannenburgh. 15 Cook, David 1965...
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  • (1885–1961, Norway, d/f/p) Andrei Gulyashki (1914–1995, Bulgaria, f) Alex La Guma (1924–1985, S Africa, f/nf) Nataliya Gumenyuk (born 1983, Ukraine, nf)...
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  • Series: the short story anthology Quartet (1963) - containing stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh and Rive himself - and the prose anthology...
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  • Benjamin Kwakye (born 1967), Ghana Goretti Kyomuhendo (born 1965), Uganda Alex La Guma (1925–1985), South Africa Kojo Laing (born 1946), Ghana Mandla Langa...
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  • the syllabus but introduced them to writers such as James Matthews, Alex La Guma, Jan Rabie, Uys Krige, Breyten Breytenbach and others from the Sestigers...
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  • African Authors: A Companion to Black African writing, 1973, p. 344. Alex La Guma, Apartheid: a collection of writings on South African racism by South...
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  • Forman (1992) (ed, with Sadie Forman) Liberation Chabalala: The World of Alex la Guma (1993) (ed, with Roger Field) Beyond the Tryline: Rugby and South African...
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