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Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and educator. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold for his literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement.
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Born 11 January 1903 · Died 12 April 1988 · Q361623
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Paton attempts to imbue his characters with a humanity not expected of them. In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate Afrikaner who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act. There are other Afrikaners, too, who are led by their consciences and not by rules, and regulations promulgated by a faceless, monolithic parliament.
Awarded Order of Ikhamanga in Gold (2006).
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“Paton attempts to imbue his characters with a humanity not expected of them. In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate Afrikaner who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act. There are other Afrikaners, too, who are led by their consciences and not by rules, and regulations promulgated by a faceless, monolithic parliament.”
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Awarded Order of Ikhamanga in Gold (2006).
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Paton was voted 59th in the SABC3's Great South Africans
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Died 1988-04-12.
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This marriage lasted until Paton's death in 1988.
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Paton remarried, to Anne Hopkins
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Their life together is documented in Paton's memoir Kontakion for You Departed, (1969).
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With the Prohibition of Political Interference Act which forbade political collaboration between different racial groups
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Where he had been presented with the annual Freedom Award
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Paton published the novel Too Late the Phalarope
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Directed by Zoltan Korda with a screenplay by Paton himself; in 1995, directed by Darrell Roodt; also a musical and an opera
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Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1949).
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Four months after the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, the right-wing National Party was elected to power in South Africa
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And remained together until her death from emphysema in 1967
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Born 1903-01-11.
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