Adam Small was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism.
10 Facts About Adam Small
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Adam Small was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.
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Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington.
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Adam Small matriculated in 1953 at the St Columbas High School in Athlone on the Cape Flats.
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Adam Small then attended the University of Cape Town where he studied for a degree in Languages and Philosophy.
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Adam Small returned to Cape Town in 1977, where he was Director of the Western Cape Foundation for Community Services until 1983.
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Adam Small was awarded the Hertzog Prize in 2012 for his contribution to the drama genre.
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Adam Small read a selection of poems from his latest anthology Klawerjas.
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Adam Small is known for his use of the Kaaps Afrikaans dialect, which is primarily associated with lower-class coloured speakers.
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Adam Small was a member of the Sestigers, an influential South African literary group that was working in the 1960s.