Adam Small (writer)
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Adam Small is a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement
and other activism. He is noted as a "coloured
" writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation. Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English.
Drama (1965): Kanna hy kô hystoe
Black Consciousness Movement
The Black Consciousness Movement was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in...
and other activism. He is noted as a "coloured
Coloured
In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers to an heterogenous ethnic group who possess ancestry from Europe, various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, West Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaya, India, Mozambique,...
" writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation. Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English.
Works include
- Poems (undated)
- Die Eerste Steen (undated)
- Verse van die Liefde (1957)
- Kitaar My Kruis (1962)
- A Brown Afrikaner Speaks: A Coloured Poet and Philosopher Looks Ahead (1971)
- Black Bronze Beautiful: Quatrains (1975)
- Oh Wide and Sad Land - Afrikaans Poetry of N P van Wyk Louw translated by Adam Small (1975)
- District Six (1986, with Chris Jansen)
Drama (1965): Kanna hy kô hystoe