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  • Anti-Apartheid Legend Alan Paton Gets Google Doodle Treatment

    12 Jan 2018 by Jasmine Stone in Entertainment, History, South Africa, Vibe
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    If you haven’t yet read ‘Cry, The Beloved Country’ you need to get on that pronto.

    Yesterday was the 115th anniversary of the birth of Alan Paton, one of our country’s most fearless anti-apartheid storytellers.

    Google decided that deserved the honour of being their daily Doodle, in which “Paton looks out at the rolling hills of the South African landscape he captured so beautifully”.

    Here’s what showed on the search engine:

    And, via Quartz, some info on the man:

    Paton, born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, is best known to the internet generation for his book Cry, The Beloved Country, selling more than 15 million copies by the time of his death in 1988. It was turned into the 1995 film starring James Earl Jones (an earlier 1952 version of the film starred Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier and reportedly required the black actors to pretend to be director Zoltan Korda’s servants in order to film in apartheid South Africa).

    Paton’s books record the height of apartheid, publishing 19 books between 1948 and 1989 including titles like Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful and Apartheid and the Archbishop. Paton’s writing was able to articulate the physical and emotional toll of keeping black and white South Africans apart at a time when few white authors dared to, while black authors were banned for doing so.

    Paton was always torn between his work as an author and an activist. He was a founding member of the Liberal Party of South Africa, and was often stalked and harassed by apartheid security. The apartheid government confiscated his passport in 1960 after he traveled [sic] to the US to receive the American Freedom Award.

    He died in 1988 – gone but not forgotten.

    We’ll finish with the trailer from the 1995 film adaption of his most famous novel:

    [source:quartz]

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