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Adam Small was born on 21 December, 1936 in Wellington, South Africa, is an Adam Small was South African. Discover Adam Small's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 21 December 1936
Birthday 21 December
Birthplace Wellington, South Africa
Date of death 25 June, 2016
Died Place Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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At 79 years old, Adam Small height is 1,905mm .

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Who Is Adam Small's Wife?

His wife is Rosalie Small (m. 1969–2016)

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1936

Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism.

He was 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.

Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington.

1953

He matriculated in 1953 at the St Columbas High School in Athlone on the Cape Flats.

He then attended the University of Cape Town where he studied for a degree in Languages and Philosophy.

1959

Adam became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Fort Hare in 1959, and in 1960 he was one of the academic founders of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) when he was appointed as the Head of the Philosophy Department.

1960

Small was also a member of the Sestigers, an influential South African literary group that was working in the 1960s.

This group attempted to revolutionise the dominant literature by questioning the political, racial and sexual problems with the nation.

1963

In 1963 he completed an MA (cum laude) in the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann and Friedrich Nietzsche.

During the same time period he studied at the University of London and the University of Oxford.

1970

In the early 1970s he joined the Black Consciousness Movement.

1973

In 1973 he was pressured to resign from the UWC.

This prompted a move to Johannesburg, where he became the Head of Student Body Services at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

1977

He returned to Cape Town in 1977, where he was Director of the Western Cape Foundation for Community Services until 1983.

1983

Small's last play was published in 1983.

One of his famous poems is called "Doemanie."

1984

In 1984 he returned to the UWC as the Head of the Social Services Department, a position he held until his retirement in 1997.

2012

Small 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.

2013

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.

2015

In 2015 a new drama, Maria, Moeder van God, was broadcast on Radio Sonder Grense's yearly art festival programme.

Small is known for his use of the Kaaps Afrikaans dialect, which is primarily associated with lower-class coloured speakers.

This choice was attacked by many of his contemporary critics, due to a sense that he was allying himself with (white) Afrikaans interests and that he was allowing the community's specific language to be ridiculed.

However, this choice makes him something of a literary pioneer in Afrikaans literary history.