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Peter Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder.
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culture · South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017) · writer · journalist · editor-in-chief · poet · opinion journalist · editing staff · teacher · also Peter Abrahams, Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, Abrahams
Born 19 March 1919 · Died 18 January 2017 · Q217069
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2017· 3 entries
The Boston Globe: Peter Abrahams, 97; South African wrote of apartheid and identity
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The Washington Post: Peter Abrahams, whose novels detailed South Africa’s racial injustice, dies at 97
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Died 2017-01-18.
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1994· 2 entries
Won Gold Musgrave Medal (1994).
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Was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal for his writing and journalism by the Institute of Jamaica
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1956· 3 entries
Settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life
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Abrahams published a roman à clef about the political community of which he had been a part in London: A Wreath for Udomo
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Abrahams settled in Jamaica, where he continued novels and memoirs, also working as a journalist and radio commentator
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1945· 1 entry
Abrahams helped to organised the fifth Pan-African Congress which took place in Manchester and is today regarded as a turning point within the independence struggle
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1942· 1 entry
Allen & Unwin brought out his Dark Testament, made up mostly of pieces he had carried with him from South Africa
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1939· 1 entry
Abrahams left South Africa, and worked first as a sailor, and then settled in London, where he was a journalist
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1919· 2 entries
Born 1919-03-19.
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In Vrededorp, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa; his father was from Ethiopia and his mother was Coloured, with French and African roots
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