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Alan Paton

Alan Paton

Alan Paton, a native son of South Africa, was born in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, in 1903. While his mother was a third-generation South African, his father was a Scots Presbyterian who arrived in South Africa just before the Boer War.Alan Paton attended college in Pietermaritzburg where he studied science and wrote poetry in his off-hours. After graduating, he wrote two novels and then promptly destroyed them. He devoted himself to writing poetry once again, and later, in his middle years, he wrote serious essays for liberal South African magazines, much the same way his character, Arthur Jarvis, does in Cry, the Beloved Country.Paton's initial career... Read full bio

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Uganda Daily Monitor, January 28, 2012
...you read for the umpteenth time and you have never got enough of? Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, a South African author; it features Stephen Khumalo, a rural-based black Anglican priest who embarks on a mission to locate his son in Johannesburg....
Examiner.com, January 25, 2012
...30pm at Martha Cooper Library - Cafe Book: This month's book is Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2pm at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr Library - Abbett Book Choices: This month's book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott...
Financial Times, January 6, 2012
Daily Sun, January 2, 2012
...Publishing Cry, the beloved country. That is the title of the novel by the late South African writer, Alan Paton, which mirrored life in the then apartheid enclave. Well, today, the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Training School in Lagos is crying....
IOL, December 19, 2011
...the most important titles in our history – we don’t want to continue to be reminded of Alan Paton’s Cry The Beloved Country. Cheers!...
The Independent, December 7, 2011
...his uncle Edgar Brookes, Liberal senator and Professor of Political Science at the University of Natal, friend of Alan Paton and a formative influence on Berthoud. He went on to the University of Witwatersrand, from which he graduated BA in 1956 (later...
Northwestern University, November 26, 2011
..." Two previous books, "Midlands" and "The Number" both won the country's premier nonfiction literary award, the Alan Paton Prize. His most recent work focused on the lives of Liberian refugees living in New York. Steinberg has covered South Africa's...
IOL, December 5, 2011
...the hills. These hills are grass covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it,” Alan Paton famously described the southern KwaZulu-Natal region in his classic novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. ||| Wiseman Khuzwayo There is a...
Legal Resources Center, December 5, 2011
...to write books. He is working on a "novelised" investigation of ambidexterity, Darwinism and evil. Proudly related to Alan Paton (his grandmother and Paton's mother were sisters), Nicholson's body of work is eclectic, including an investigation into the...
Appeal-Democrat.com, December 4, 2011
...to deploy. Yet these are the people who threw off the oppressive yoke of apartheid. South African novelist Alan Paton wrote of apartheid in 1948, the system's first year, anticipating a long fight to overturn it, "Cry, the beloved country, these things...
Southern Illinoisan, December 4, 2011
...to deploy. Yet these are the people who threw off the oppressive yoke of apartheid. South African novelist Alan Paton wrote of apartheid in 1948, the system's first year, anticipating a long fight to overturn it, "Cry, the beloved country, these things...
Mail & Guardian Online, December 2, 2011
...to write books. He is working on a "novelised" investigation of ambidexterity, Darwinism and evil. Proudly related to Alan Paton (his grandmother and Paton's mother were sisters), Nicholson's body of work is eclectic, including an investigation into the...
Grass Valley Union, December 1, 2011
...to deploy. Yet these are the people who threw off the oppressive yoke of apartheid. South African novelist Alan Paton wrote of apartheid in 1948, the system's first year, anticipating a long fight to overturn it, “Cry, the beloved country, these things...
Capital Times, December 1, 2011
...to deploy. Yet these are the people who threw off the oppressive yoke of apartheid. South African novelist Alan Paton wrote of apartheid in 1948, the system’s first year, anticipating a long fight to overturn it, “Cry, the beloved country, these...