Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. [1] His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder. [2]

2025年1月14日 · Peter Abrahams (born March 3, 1919, Vrededorp, near Johannesburg, South Africa—died January 18, 2017, Kingston, Jamaica) was a South African-born writer who penned perceptive and powerful novels about the injustices and complexities of racial politics.

ABRAHAMS, Peter (Henry) 1919-PERSONAL: Born March 19, 1919, in Vrededorp, South Africa; son of James Henry and Angelina (DuPlessis) Abrahams; married Dorothy Pennington, 1942 (marriage dissolved, 1948); married Daphne Elizabeth Miller (an artist), June 1, 1948; children: (second marriage) Anne, Aron, Naomi.

2020年8月12日 · This article establishes the political context for the observance of the centenary of the birth of South African and Jamaican novelist Peter Henry Abrahams. It tracks his career contributions in literature, broadcasting, print journalism and political activism in England and in Jamaica, following his early departure from his native South Africa.

2012年5月6日 · Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured' South African, an identity he describes as “the half-caste community that was a byproduct of the early contact between black and white.”

2011年12月5日 · Peter Abrahams was murdered on January 18, 2017 in his home in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He was 97. Abrahams’s killer, 61-year-old Norman Tomlinson, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2018.

2018年5月23日 · With the publication of his seminal novel Mine Boy in 1946, Peter Abrahams became the first author to bring the horrific reality of South Africa ’ s apartheid system of racial discrimination to international attention.

Peter Henry Abrahams stands out as a pioneering nonwhite South African novelist who wrote in English, following in the footsteps of Solomon Plaatje. His literary journey commenced with the...

Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (also: de Ras) was born on March 19, 1919 in Johannesburg and in Tell Freedom (1954) he recounts the difficulties of his upbringing in the inner city slum of Vrededorp, after the death of his Ethiopian-born father: "With [my father] going, the order and stability that had been in my life, dissolved. There was no bread ...

Peter Henry Abrahams, one of South Africa’s most prolific and path-setting authors, was born in 1919 in the historic inner city locality of Vrededorp in Johannesburg. The son of James Henry Abrahams, an Ethiopian, and Angelina Du Plessis who was of African-French origin, Abrahams’ life was consumed by the issues of race in colonial and ...