Adam Small date of birth:
December 21, 1936
How old was Adam Small when died?
79
Where was Adam Small born?
Wellington, Western Cape
When did Adam Small die?
June 25, 2016
Where did Adam Small die?
Cape Town, South Africa
Adam Small body shape:
Average
What color are Adam Small's eyes?
Brown - Dark
What color is Adam Small's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Adam Small gay or straight?
Straight
What is Adam Small's ethnicity?
White
What is Adam Small nationality?
South African
Where did Adam Small go to university?
University of Cape Town
What is Adam Small's occupation?
Writer
Adam Small claim to fame:
involved in Black Consciousness Movement
Short Biography
Adam Small (born in Wellington, Western Cape on 21 December 1936) 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. He was awarded the Hertzog Prize in 2012 for his contribution to the drama genre. Although the award was well received for being long overdue, some controversy arose because the Academy in making the award broke one of their own rules stating that the prize can only be awarded to a writer who has published new and substantial work in a specific genre during the previous three years. Small's last play was published in 1983. One of his famous poems is called " Doemanie ". After decades spent out of the public eye, Small, on 14 September 2013, received a hero's welcome at the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington, where he was guest of honour at the centre's Poet Festival. He read a selection of poems from his latest anthology Klawerjas