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  2. List of South African writers - Wikipedia

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    H–J. Megan Hall (born 1972) Joan Hambidge (born 1956) Bessie Head (1937–1986), born in South Africa, mainly in Botswana. Cat Hellisen (born 1977) Manu Herbstein (born 1936) Christopher Hope (born 1944) Emma Huismans (born 1947) Robin Hyde (1906–1939), born in South Africa, living in New Zealand writer.

  3. Wilbur Smith - Wikipedia

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    Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian -born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. He gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, [3] which encouraged him to become a ...

  4. List of fiction set in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable works of fiction which are set in South Africa : Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee. Karoo Boy by Troy Blacklaws. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful by Alan Paton.

  5. The Covenant (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Overview. The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa ...

  6. Cry, the Beloved Country - Wikipedia

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    Cry, the Beloved Country. Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association ...

  7. South African literature - Wikipedia

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    South Africa has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda, SiSwati, Tsonga, and Ndebele. Any definitive literary history of South Africa should, it could be argued, discuss literature produced in all 11 languages. But the only literature ever to adopt characteristics that can be said to be "national" is ...

  8. National Library of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    In terms of South African legal deposit legislation, each of the national libraries was a legal deposit library, entitled to receive from the publishers a gratis copy of every book, serial, newspaper, government publication or other printed item published in South Africa. In South Africa legal deposit, in some form or another, dates back to 1842.

  9. J. M. Coetzee - Wikipedia

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    J. M. Coetzee. John Maxwell Coetzee [a] FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.

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