Literature

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Authors

 * [|Alan Paton] [[image:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/AWlKkVPtSGNQlxWQ89tURecYSQ89ZcGEpGzPPBRt3e_Zf3LspHijZ91WirUjkhwCqJC4QPBmNgbMWTd5qMpXdfk1kaM2jPnRDHmHL0-9_rWYxHubOA width="183" height="257"]][[image:http://michaelyork.net/images/recordings/Cry-The-Beloved-Country.jpg width="217" height="229"]] **


 * - Alan was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist and is responsible for creating perhaps the most famous novel to come out of South Africa. **
 * - Paton is most famous for his work Cry, the Beloved Country. The novel exploits the evil that is segregation throughout the apartheid period. **
 * - A short period after Cry, the Beloved Country was published Alan Paton founded the Liberal Party of South Africa, which fought against the apartheid legislation introduced by the National Party **
 * - Alan Paton later won the Nobel Prize for his most famous and influential novel, Cry, the Beloved Country **


 * [|Zakes Mda] [[image:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/74LEGgPE-NuhXZvpnHhUBeJwm3hI0Qu7AwoiBJkQHIjimzEQElxW6kpePZ69jYQuzCXQ46xh98NIlLgZSkP_35eK7DmzTBvCIAEgbVAn5LHWFbBkJw width="192" height="250"]][[image:http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312004397l/95826.jpg width="134" height="250"]][[image:http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316129662l/373967.jpg width="134" height="250"]][[image:http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1317791287l/179272.jpg width="134" height="250"]] **


 * -Zakes Mda is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. His works about equality and justice have earned him major South African and British literary awards. **
 * -Two of his novels have been awarded the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award an independent prize, which was launched in South Africa. The Prize was awarded towards many of South Africa's anti-apartheid playwrights. **
 * - His first award-winning novel was We Shall sing for the Fatherland. This novel received a special merit award in the first Amstel Playwright of the Year Award of South Africa in 1978. **
 * -His second award-winning novel was The Hill, which earned him the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award. **
 * - Zakes went on to earn three more award winning novels including: **
 * ** 1997 - Ways of Dying; won the M-Net Book Prize, South Africa **
 * ** 2001 - The Heart of Redness; won the Commonwealth Writers Prize: Africa, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize **
 * ** 2004 - "The Madonna of Excelsior" was selected as one of the Top Ten South African Books Published in the Decade of Democracy **



[|Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela]
 * Nelson Mandela is a South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. **
 * Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiographical work written by Nelson Mandela which represents his life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison. **
 * This novel shows Mandela’s life realization and the changes he made from being considered a terrorist, to mending the people and the nation of South Africa as its leader. **
 * The book won the Alan Paton Award in 1995, and is published in numerous languages **