Adam Small (writer)
Adam Small (born in Wellington, Western Cape on December 21, 1936) is a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He is noted as a "coloured" writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.[1] Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English.
Works include
- Poems (undated)
- Die Eerste Steen (undated)
- Verse van die Liefde (1957)
- Kitaar My Kruis (1962)
- A Brown Afrikaner Speaks: A Coloured Poet and Philosopher Looks Ahead (1971)
- Black Bronze Beautiful: Quatrains (1975)
- Oh Wide and Sad Land - Afrikaans Poetry of N P van Wyk Louw translated by Adam Small (1975)
- District Six (1986, with Chris Jansen)
Drama (1965): Kanna hy kô hystoe
Web source
- ^ European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa By Albert S. Gérard
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