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Cry, the Beloved CountryCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly...Read More
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Times Live South Africa, November 7, 2009
...they found themselves immersed, subconsciously and sometimes consciously, in social activism. Controversially, I would like to posit that Alan Paton fell within this group. Even though politically he embraced a sort of conservative liberalism, his most...
Times Live South Africa, November 3, 2009
...Sunday Times Literary Awards. Titles should have been published between December 1 2009 and December 1 2010. The Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction: “Any full-length non-fiction work relating to Southern Africa and published between December 1 2008...
Times Online, October 8, 2009
...death in South Africa?. Earlier this year, the Three Letter Plague was also shortlisted for The Sunday Times Alan Paton prize for non-fiction...
Big Hospitality, October 8, 2009
...beef and pork specialist, Pork ? The Meat For All Seasons features 24 recipes contributed by chefs including Alan Paton, Steve Reynolds, Tim Fletcher, Darren Clemmit, Mathew Shropshall and Steve Munckley. Each recipes reflects one of the four seasons,...
Central Utah Daily Herald, October 8, 2009
...by Jules Verne, 'Austenland' by Shannon Hale, 'Beyond the Western Sea' by Avi, 'Cry, The Beloved Country' by Alan Paton, 'Dandelion Wine' by Ray Bradbury, 'Day of Tears' by Lester, Julius, 'Finding Fish' by Antwone Fisher, 'Hot Lunch' by Alex Bradley,...
AllAfrica.com, October 5, 2009
...institutionalised to the point of being normal, most works have come from liberal white South African writers like Alan Paton, and Nadine Gordimer, among others. While Black South Africans have also written widely, very striking accounts of apartheid...
Moneyweb, September 28, 2009
...saw Richmond, this Richmond. Mostly, the name conjures up Natal's Richmond, green and wet and near to Alan Paton's 'road with a beauty past the telling of it'. No, this Richmond hasn't heard of 'green' or 'wet' but could say a thing or two about another...
Momlogic, September 18, 2009
...Hunter, by Carson McCullers One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton East of Eden, by John Steinbeck Sula, by Toni Morrison Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald A Fine Balance, by Rohinton...
The Witness, September 1, 2009
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The Times South Africa, August 15, 2009
...courage in telling it like it is. I?ve had the privilege of serving with him on the Alan Paton Award judging panel for two years and have come to know him as a man of humility, with a sincere interest in people and a delightful twinkle in his...
Sunday Times South Africa, August 8, 2009
...time ago, I am recommending it this week for the simple reason that, last weekend, it won the Alan Paton prize for non-fiction. Peter Harris was up against other big- hitters: Andrew Brown (Street Blues); Pippa Green (Choice not Fate The life & times of...
Island Packet, July 27, 2009
...and war. 'The Good Earth' won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. 'Cry the Beloved Country' by Alan Paton (1948): On one level, this is a story of South Africa during the 1940s with its history of colonialism and apartheid. On another level, it is...
AllAfrica.com, July 24, 2009
...describe a more just and equitable social order. Foley presents a detailed, contextualised discussion of the work of Alan Paton, Chinua Achebe, Ken Kesey, Seamus Heaney, Fay Weldon, Athol Fugard, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian McEwan and others, in order to...
The Times South Africa, July 17, 2009
...chance to watch a fun and hearty discussion about five of the books shortlisted for this year?s Alan Paton Awards. Kumalo reviews A Simple Freedom by Ahmed Kathrada with Tim Couzens (published by Wild Dog Press) while Magwood talks about Street Blues...
Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2009
...ascertain whether a metal was base or precious. In junior high, my touchstone was the South African writer Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country." Then, in high school, I chanced to read Virginia Woolf. She instantly became my new touchstone ... until...
Biz Community, July 8, 2009
...Eight week workshop in Johannesburg from July to August run by author of 12 published books and Alan Paton award nominee Charlene Smith. Input from other top writers, publishers, editors and marketing agents with lots of practical work. You will learn: -...
China Post, June 20, 2009
...published in Chinese by Faces Publications, Cite Publishing Ltd. In her book, author and Shortlist Nominee for the Alan Paton Award, Glynis Clatcherty relates the testimonies of 14 Africans who were forced to leave their native war-torn countries and...
Sunday Times South Africa, June 6, 2009
...and moral integrity. From Marq de Villiers, the inaugural winner in 1989, to Mark Gevisser in 2008, the Alan Paton has always been a coveted prize that rewards honesty, empathy, beautiful writing and hard work by local non-fiction authors. While last...
Sunday Times South Africa, June 6, 2009
...The 2009 Alan Paton Award shortlist represents an eclectic mix of exceptional books containing riveting stories of policemen, activists, politicians, Aids victims and prisoners. The scenery shifts between books about Robben Island prison...
The Times South Africa, June 6, 2009
...she hosted him and other authors at her Christmas brunch book get-together, she predicted he would make the Alan Paton short list . The other author was the imposing Mandla Langa, who penned The Lost Colours of the Chameleon. In the room of publishers,...
The Times South Africa, June 1, 2009
...Its that time of the year again and with the 20th anniversary of the Alan Paton Award this years literary awards are hotting up. The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday 3 June. For all your longlist and other award requirements click here...
The Times South Africa, June 1, 2009
...to do what you like and are ignorant of the consequences. After two decades, the longlist for the Alan Paton Award is the most prolific yet taking on everything from xenophobia to prehistoric bones. The entries for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize are a...
Sunday Times South Africa, May 30, 2009
...After two decades, the longlist for the Alan Paton Award is the most prolific yet taking on everything from xenophobia to prehistoric bones. The entries for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize are a tribute to the power of...
Oprah.com, May 19, 2009
...a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullers One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel García Márquez 2003 Cry, The Beloved Countryby Alan Paton East of Edenby John Steinbeck...
Washington Post, May 7, 2009
...7 p.m. May 18, John Marshall Library, 4133 Rectortown Rd. Discussion of 'Cry the Beloved Country' by Alan Paton. New members welcome. Free. 540-364-4910. BOOK CELLAR, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, John Barton Payne Building basement, 2 Courthouse...
Biz Community, May 5, 2009
...She is the author of Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate (winner of an Honorary 2007 Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award) and Boiling Point (the Ruth First Memorial Lecture). Other books by her, currently in production, are Invaded: the...
Screen Africa, April 20, 2009
...severe threat. Foley, head of the department of English in the School of Education, discusses the work of Alan Paton, Chinua Achebe, Ken Kesey, Seamus Heaney, Fay Weldon, Athol Fugard, Ian McEwan and others. The launch starts at 18:00 and will also...
Mail & Guardian Online, March 31, 2009
...rivers of ink absorbed, but the lust to write is still unsatisfied ?'. Sakhela Bulungu, chair of the Alan Paton Award panel in 2008, was scathing about this rush to write and -- often correspondingly -- to publish. But as publishers sell books, not...
Swazi Observer, March 25, 2009
...in particular the spirit of uMagogo, which many have taken pleasure from. It has been nominated for the Alan Paton Award for 2007. According to Elias, the award will be brought into the country on April 10, where it will be celebrated and enjoyed with...
The Times South Africa, March 24, 2009
...Rechristened -A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream, Mark Gevissers Alan Paton Award winning biography of the former president has arrived in a much shortened version (although with added material chronicling the...
AllAfrica.com, March 17, 2009
...Okosuns' Papa's Land, Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia Shall Be Free, Walter Rodney's How Europe Under-developed Africa, Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, Peter Abraham's Tell Freedom and Albert Luthuli's Let My People Go. It was supposed to be the dawn of...
The Independent, March 9, 2009
...were too wary to publish, and earned themselves in the process the close attention of the security services. Alan Paton and Nadine Gordimer were among the writers they published. Philip was at Magdalen College, Oxford, after six months' war service...
Sunday Times South Africa, February 1, 2009
...of this in Rooke, he wrote. Not a single judgmental or protesting adjective. Rooke, a close friend of Alan Paton, was critical of Gordimer and Lessings more widely acclaimed portrayals of apartheid. They were so outside the truth, she said in an...
Artslink.co.za, January 30, 2009
...and Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson Music by Kurt Weill Based on the novel Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton VENUE: Wits Amphitheatre, Braamfontein SEASON: 2 ? 14 February [3, 5 and 6 February at 11h00; 2 ? 7, 10 ? 14 February at 19h30] PRESS...
Daily Local News, January 11, 2009
...7:30 p.m. The book to be discussed on Feb. 2 is 'Cry, the Beloved Country,' by Alan Paton. For reservations and information about either group, call 610-280-2642. n The Phoenixville Library's Phoenix Book Club meets on the first Monday of the month at 7...
The Times South Africa, January 3, 2009
...Without any singing of it, as Alan Paton would have said, South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries in the world the people, the weather, the scenery and, of course, the politics. The splendour of...
The Week, December 10, 2008
...against whom - I have lived. 'To the Africans: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, to Alan Paton's 'Cry the Beloved Country', to Thomas Mofolo's 'Chaka'. To the great Mauritian author Malcolm de Chazal, who wrote, among other...
IBNLive India News, December 8, 2008
...against whom - I have lived. 'To the Africans: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, to Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, to Thomas Mofolo's Chaka. To the great Mauritian author Malcolm de Chazal, who wrote, among other things,...
Malaysia Sun, December 8, 2008
...against whom - I have lived. 'To the Africans: Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, to Alan Paton's 'Cry the Beloved Country', to Thomas Mofolo's 'Chaka'. To the great Mauritian author Malcolm de Chazal, who wrote, among other...
The South African, November 24, 2008
...- the Olive Schreiner Prize, the South African Sunday Times fiction prize and, for Portrait with Keys, the Alan Paton Prize for Non Fiction. His work is translated into several European languages. A shortlist of six titles will be announced on 23 January...
Ask MetaFilter, October 9, 2009
...Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz ++The Red Tent, Anita Diamant +/-In the Woods, Tana French +Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton ++Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie Andrews +Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian +Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards +/-The Year of...
BOOK Southern Africa, September 29, 2009
...Umuzi and Kalk Bay Books invite you to a conversation with Peter Harris on his Alan Paton Award-winning book, In a Different Time.Harris will be joined by author and editor Mike Nicol (Payback) for a discussion about writing non-fiction as a thriller -...
BOOK Southern Africa, September 9, 2009
...- and is being launched in the UK and Ireland this week.The biography’s title comes from Alan Paton, coined the phrase in reference to the bishop. Hurley was also known as an “ecclesiastical Che Guevara”.Born in Cape Town in 1915 of Irish parents,...
Never Jam Today, September 5, 2009
...How do you feel: The Reluctant Heiress (Eva Ibbotson) Describe where you currently live: Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton) If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Silent on the Moor (Deanna Raybourn) Your favorite form of transportation: Along...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 18, 2009
...saw the publishing mainstream gather last weekend to see In a Different Time by Peter Harris take the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and The Rowing Lesson by Anne Landsman the Sunday Times Fiction Prize.This past weekend saw a gathering of small-scale...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 12, 2009
...Alert! Sunday Independent books page editor and Sunday Times Alan Paton Award judge Maureen Isaacson laments the fact that there aren’t more top-notch literary prizes for non-fiction in South Africa.While extolling the virtues of this year’s winner...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 11, 2009
...Hyde Park, Johannesburg earlier this month.In a Different Time by Peter Harris (published by Umuzi), claimed the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction to mark the 20th anniversary of the prize, while Anne Landsmans The Rowing Lesson (published by Kwela) was...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 5, 2009
...Peter Harris’ gripping account of the trial of the Delmas Four, In a Different Time, which won the Alan Paton Award - has heretofore gone unexcerpted on our network.Clearly, this is a problem that requires rectification without delay. We are very...
Times Multimedia, August 3, 2009
...panel during the 20th anniversary of the Literary Awards. Peter Harris (In a Different Time) won the coveted Alan Paton award, while Anne Landsman (The Rowing Lesson) walked away with this year’s Fiction Prize. Both winners also took home R75 000 each...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 3, 2009
...premier literary occasion. Not only are the individual prizes the biggest - both the Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award weighed in at R75 000 this year - but the awarding process, from [...]...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 3, 2009
...Umuzi and Random House Struik are delighted to congratulate author Peter Harris for winning the 2009 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction for his book, In a Different Time.This year marks the 20th anniversary, not only of the Sunday Times...
BOOK Southern Africa, August 1, 2009
...Awards, Landsman the R75 000 Fiction Prize for her novel, The Rowing Lesson, and Harris the R75 000 Alan Paton Award for his account of the trial of the Delmas Four, In a Different Time. Hearty congratulations to [...]...
BOOK Southern Africa, June 8, 2009
...R75 000 Fiction Prize* * *R75 000 Alan Paton Award for non-fictionAlert! The chairpersons of the 2009 Sunday Times Literary Awards judges’ committees - Victor Dlamini for the Fiction Prize and Jonathan Jansen for the Alan [...]...
BOOK Southern Africa, June 3, 2009
...R75 000 Fiction Prize* * *R75 000 Alan Paton Award for non-fictionAmong the publishers, there’s a three-way tie for shortlist placings: Random House Struik, Penguin and Jonathan Ball each have two books among the ten titles.More...
Book Case at The Times, June 1, 2009
...It’s that time of the year again and with the 20th anniversary of the Alan Paton Award this year’s literary awards are hotting up. The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday 3 June. For all your longlist and other award requirements click here ....
BOOK Southern Africa, June 1, 2009
...Click here for the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and Alan Paton Award longlists...
BOOK Southern Africa, May 7, 2009
...50 years, dubbed “an ecclesiastical Che Guevara” by a South African official and “guardian of the light” by Alan Paton. He was a champion of the reforms and “spirit” of Vatican II, who was controversial for his views on birth control,...
A Striped Armchair, March 27, 2009
...and forgot about it. It’d be nice to actually finish the thing! Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton: for the longest time I thought this book was set in China. So when I found out it’s actually set in South Africa, I immediately developed a...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...Animal Farm by George Orwell x @ The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese GB84 by David Peace Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell Vineland by...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...O'Hagan Animal Farm by George Orwell The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese GB84 by David Peace Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell Vineland by...
Pofrika, January 7, 2009
...beginning of modern South African literature in English may be dated through the combination of four specific publications: Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country in 1948, which inaugurated a tradition of protest in white English-speaking South African...
Librarian, December 13, 2008
...to read this. Le Clézio writes: To the Africans: Wole Soyinka , Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mongo Beti, to Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country , to Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka. To the great Mauritian author Malcolm de Chazal, who wrote, among other...
DiscoverSweet.com : Sweet : Travel. Live. Be., December 8, 2008
...Wilderness , Mark and Delia Owens The Covenant , James Michener The Poisonwood Bible , Barbara Kingsolver Cry the Beloved Country , Alan Paton To order books, support your local bookstore or visit www.longitudebooks.com . overview | itinerary | pricing |...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann The Victim – Saul Bellow Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau If This Is a Man – Primo Levi Under...
