Image Number: APN11018
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / Motlhalefi Mahlabe
Description: MM0179 South Africa JohannesburgMotlhalefi Mahlabe/SouthNadine Gordimer cutting a cake during her eighteth birthday celebration at the Birchwood Hotel, Benoni - 2004
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: Motlhalefi Mahlabe
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 1488 x 2240
Media Id: 61_882
Credit: Motlhalefi Mahlabe / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Nobel prize winner, author, novelist, writer, black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Nadine Gordimer, cutting cake, birthday cakes, celebration, Birchwood hotel, Benoni, 80th birthday celebration, 2004, 2000s, political activists, ,
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Image Number: APN154139
Title: Miriama Ba
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Miriama Ba. Born 1929 Senegal. Obtained teaching diploma 1947. Later joined Senegalese Regional Inspectorate of teaching. 1980 received Norma. Prize for first novel'Une Si Longue Lettre'. Died 1981.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2898 x 2894
Media Id: 57_411
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Germany, Frankfurt, , Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, square, novelist, writer, sitting, three quarters view, 1980, 1980s, Senegalese, black African woman, traditional dress, Mariama Ba, ,
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Image Number: APN154143
Title: Es'kia Mphahlela
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Es'kia Mphahlela. At Writer's Conference, University of Pretoria. b. 1919. Literary editor of Drum magazine till forced into exile in 1957. In 1969 nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature. Works include'Father Come Home','Afrika My Music' and 'Chirundu'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3475 x 2414
Media Id: 57_424
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, South African, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 2002, 2000s, black African men, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, African Writer's Conference, editors, Drum Magazine, novelist, Nobel Prize nominee, side view, talking, gesturing, lectern, laughing, ,
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Image Number: APN154147
Title: Cyprian Ekwensi
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Cyprian Ekwensi. Nigerian novelist, born 1921.Wrote short stories, radio and television scripts and novels, including 'People of the City' and 'Jagua Nana'. 1968 received Dag Hammarskjold International Prize in Literature. 2006 became a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Died in 2007.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2910 x 2883
Media Id: 57_415
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Cyprian Ekwensi, Frankfurt, listening, black African man, head and torso, novelist, square, writer, Germany, facing camera, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, 1980, 1980s, ,
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Image Number: APN154151
Title: Nawal El Saadawi
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Nawal El Saadawi. b1931. Egyptian novelist,psychiatrist, lecturer and writer. Has written many books on the plight of women in Islam. Awards include International Writer of the Year 2003. Books (written in Arabic) include 'Memoirs of a Woman Doctor', 'The death of the Only Man on Earth', 'Love in the Kingdom of Oil'. She has also written plays and short stories
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2419 x 3468
Media Id: 57_458
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: standing, Egyptians, doorways, three quarters view, vertical, black and white image, psychiatrists, lecturers, USA, novelist, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, woman, Nawal El Saadawi, 1980s, 1983, ,
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Image Number: APN154155
Title: Chinua Achebe
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Chinua Achebe. At Madiba's (Nelson Mandela's) cell on Robben Island.Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. B. 1930. Works include 'Things Fall Apart' Anthills of the Savannah' (Man Booker finalist) and 'Man of the People.2007 Man Booker International Prize
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2390 x 3509
Media Id: 57_452
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Western Cape, Chinua Achebe, black and white image, Nigerians, vertical, Africa, South Africa, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, 2002, 2000s, Robben Island, Cape Town, writer, cells, Nelson Mandela, groups, wheelchair, prison bars, novelist, critics, poet, ,
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Image Number: APN154156
Title: Amadou Kourouma
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Amadou Kourouma. Berlin African Writers' conference.. Ivorian writer b.1927. Spent time in Mali, France, Algeria and Cameroon; part of this time in exile.His books include 'The Suns of Independence', 'Pending the Vote of Wild Beasts' (awarded the Prix du Livre Inter) and several children's books. d.2003.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: Cameroon/Cameroun
Pixel Size: 2868 x 2926
Media Id: 57_428
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, African Writer's Conference, novelist, author, black and white image, African writers, square, portrait, sitting, facing camera, Berlin, Germany, Amadou Kourouma, Ivorians, 1979, 1970s, Europe, black African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154157
Title: Christopher Hope
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Christopher Hope. b.1944, Johannesburg, South Africa. Educated at Universities of Witwatersrand and KwaZulu Natal and worked as journalist. Moved to London, 1985. Broadcaster, reviewer, playwright,poet, novelist.Works include'A Separate Development', 'Kruger's Alp', 'White Boy Running' and 'My Mother's Lovers'. Awards include the Whitbread Novel Award and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3387 x 2477
Media Id: 57_471
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, playwright, England, London, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, journalist, 1984, 1980s, writer, author, poet, novelist, white African man, South African, sitting, casual, bookshelves, three quarters view, Christopher Hope, ,
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Image Number: APN154158
Title: Williams Sassine
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Williams Sassine. Born 1944 Guinea.Wrote in FrenchFled to France 1961 -6 from Sekuo Toure's regime. On return wrote four novels,amongst which is'Le Jeune Homme de Sable' taught maths and became a headmaster.Became chief editor of satirical newspaper 'Le Lynx' Died in 1996
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2905 x 2888
Media Id: 57_431
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, square, head and torso, facing camera, Frankfurt, Germany, writer, novelist, French, Williams Sassine, Guinean, 1980, 1980s, ,
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Image Number: APN154160
Title: Henrietta Rose-Innes
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Henrietta Rose-Innes. In Newlands Forest.b. 1971. Novelist. Works include'Shark's Egg' (nominated for the M-Net Book Prize) and'The Rock Alphabet'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2378 x 3527
Media Id: 57_508
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, novelist, Newlands, Newlands Forest, standing, casual, trees, waterfalls, White African woman, Henrietta Rose-Innes, ,
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Image Number: APN154161
Title: Hamilton Wende
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Hamilton Wende. b.in the USA but grew up and educated in South Africa where he lives. A freelance writer and television producer.He has covered fifteen different wars in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Works include 'True North: African Roads Less Travelled','The Quagga's Secret' (Children) and 'The King's Shilling'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3522 x 2381
Media Id: 57_420
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Portraits of African Writers series, 2005, 2000s, portrait, writer, novelist, non-fiction, leaning, cannons, casual, serious, producers, television, Hamilton Wende, ,
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Image Number: APN154162
Title: Mongo Beti and Chinua Achebe
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Mongo Beti and Chinua Achebe. Berlin African Writers' conference.. Mongo Beti (1932 - 2001) Cameroonian author who lived for 32 years in France. Books included'The Poor Christ of Bomba' and'Remember Reuben'.Died 2001.Chinua Achebe - Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. B. 1930. Attended University of Ibadan BA. Became a teacher, then joined NBS. Works include'Things Fall Apart' Anthills of the Savannah' (a Man Booker finalist) and 'Man of the People'.2007 Man Booker International Prize
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: square
Pixel Size: 2894 x 2899
Media Id: 57_436
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Germany, Berlin, black African people, African writers, African Writer's Conference, black African men, Portraits of African Writers series, groups, black and white image, black and white, square, 1979, 1970s, authors, sitting, Chinua Achebe, Mongo Beti, ,
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Image Number: APN154165
Title: Primrose Mrwebi and Finuala Dowling
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Primrose Mrwebi is a poet.Finuala Dowling b.Capetown South Africa 1962.Educational materials developer novelist, poet and lecturer. Works include 'I Flying' (Ingrid Jonker Prize) and What Poets Need'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3499 x 2398
Media Id: 57_505
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, poet, novelist, academic, sitting, talking, smiling, facing each other, Finuala Dowling, Primrose Mrwebe, ,
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Image Number: APN154166
Title: Mtutuzeli Matshoba
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Mtutuzeli Matshoba. b.1950 Soweto South AfricaStudied at Fort Hare University. Writer of short stories, film scripts and novels.Works include 'Call me Not a Man'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2861 x 2931
Media Id: 57_497
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, South African, square, Portraits of African Writers series, Paris, France, writer, portrait, novelist, doorways, archways, facing camera, smoking, smiling, 1993, 1990s, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, black African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154167
Title: Don Mattera and Chinua Achebe
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Don Mattera b. 1935, Western Native Township South Africa.Journalist,playwright, poet and author. Works include'Gone with the Twilight: A Story of Sophiatown' and 'The Storyteller'.Chinua Achebe.Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. B. 1930. Works include 'Things Fall Apart' Anthills of the Savannah' (Man Booker finalist) and'Man of the People.2007 Man Booker International Prize
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3521 x 2382
Media Id: 57_416
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Western Cape, black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, 2002, 2000s, Robben Island, Cape Town, writer, discussion, journalist, playwright, poet, author, novelist, sitting, side view, Don Mattera, Chinua Achebe, South African, Nigerians, black African people, ,
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Image Number: APN154169
Title: Buchi Emecheta
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Buchi Emecheta. b.1944 in Lagos, Nigeria. Moved to London in 1960 and became a student at London University, later becoming a social worker. A prolific African novelist and writer of children's books. Books include 'The Rape of Shavi', 'Gwendolen' and 'Head Above Water' (autobiographical). Has also written a play for television.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: Nigeria
Pixel Size: 2864 x 2928
Media Id: 57_410
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: England, London, black and white image, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, square, writer, author, 1979, 1970s, black African woman, sitting, facing camera, smiling, Nigerians, novelist, children's books, ,
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Image Number: APN154171
Title: Lindiwe Mabuza with Hugh Robertson
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Lindiwe Mabuza with Hugh Robertson. 1938 Newcastle, South Africa. Writer and poet. Began her career as a teacher. Later became Assistant Professor of Literature and History at Ohio University in USA.She represented the ANC in Scandinavia and the US. Became South African High Commissioner in UK in 2001. Works include 'Malibongwe', 'Letter to Letta',and 'Voices that Lead'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2406 x 3486
Media Id: 57_472
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, academic, poet, novelist, 1994, 1990s, standing, talking, smiling, side view, Lindiwe Mabuza, Hugh Robertson, Pretoria, Gauteng, Opening of Parliament, ,
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Image Number: APN154178
Title: James Matthews
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: James Matthews (b.1929. South African poet and writer. One novel (The Party is Over); several volumes of poetry, including'Poems from a Prison Cell' and a book of short stories. Awards include Woza Afrika Award (1978).
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 2834 x 2960
Media Id: 57_484
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African, novelist, writer, author, poet, black and white image, France, Europe, 1980, 1980s, portrait, head and shoulders, water, facing camera, dramatic, wet, James Matthews, immersion, Portraits of African Writers series, square, ,
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Image Number: APN154186
Title: Bessie Head
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Bessie Head. Berlin African Writers' conference.b.1937 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, adopted, became a teacher. Took up journalism; wrote for Drum magazine. Moved to Botswana where she wrote novels and plays. Amongst these are 'Maru',A Question of Power', and 'The Cardinals. Died 1986.In 2003 awarded South African Order of Ikhamanga in Gold
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2938 x 2856
Media Id: 57_516
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, Germany, South African, Berlin, Europe, African Writer's Conference, authors, writers, 1979, 1970s, square, Portraits of African Writers series, novelist, playwright, black African woman, portrait, head and shoulders, smoking, Bessie Head, ,
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Image Number: APN154190
Title: Achmat Dangor
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Achmat Dangor. b. 1948, Johannesburg, South Africa. Poet and writer of novels and short stories. Political activist, banned in 1973. Works include 'Kafka's Curse' for which he received the South African Bosman prize, 'Bitter Fruit', shortlisted for the Mann Booker prize for fiction, and'Waiting for Leila'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3529 x 2377
Media Id: 57_454
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, 1992, 1990s, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Yeoville, South Africans, poet, novelist, political activists, sitting, facing camera, wine, glass, wall, Achmat Dangor, ,
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Image Number: APN154191
Title: Welma Odendaal
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Welma Odendaal. 1952. Afrikaans writer and designer. Runs the Cafe des Arts restaurant in Kalk Bay. Works include 'Keerkring' which was banned, 'Connie Vermoed Verraad' and 'Verlate plekke'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2396 x 3500
Media Id: 57_482
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, novelist, vertical, Africa, South Africa, South African, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, White African woman, Welma Odendaal, designers, standing, facing camera, Cafe des Arts, Kalk Bay, ,
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Image Number: APN154196
Title: Ann Harries
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Ann Harries. South African author.On moving to England she became active in the anti-apartheid movement. The author of 'Manly Pursuits' and 'No Place for a Lady'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3538 x 2371
Media Id: 57_490
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape, Portraits of African Writers series, 2005, 2000s, portrait, writer, South African, author, novelist, standing, hands clasped, smiling, art, pictures, Ann Harries, ,
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Image Number: APN154197
Title: Sipho Sepamla
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Sipho Sepamla. Born near Krugersdorp, South Africa 1932. Trained as a teacher. Has published 6 collections of poetry and several novels including 'A Ride on the Whirlwind'.'The Soweto I Love' (poetry) was banned by the Apartheid regime.Received the Thomas Pringle Award (1977) and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, for his writing.Died 2007
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2878 x 2914
Media Id: 57_519
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, 1980, Sipho Sepamla, square, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, 1980s, Frankfurt, Germany, sitting, facing camera, poet, novelist, writer, South African, black African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154210
Title: Dambudzo Marechera
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Dambudzo Marechera. Berlin African Writers' conference.. b.1952 Zimbabwe ( then Rhodesia). A novelist and poet. Expelled from University of Rhodesia during student unrest and New College, Oxford. Literary works include 'The House of Hunger' (1979 Guardian fiction prize), 'The Black Insider', 'Cemetery of Mind' (collection of poetry pub. posthumously). d.1987.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2538 x 3306
Media Id: 57_408
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Portraits of African Writers series, author, Germany, vertical, black and white image, Europe, Berlin, novelist, poet, African Writer's Conference, Zimbabweans, portrait, head and shoulders, facing camera, 1979, 1970s, Dambudzo Marechera, ,
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Image Number: APN154211
Title: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Ngugi wa Thiong'o. b. 1938. A Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist and playwright. Worked as a journalist in Nairobi then went to Leeds University UK to pursue Graduate studies.Political prisoner in Kenya, went into exile in London. Works include' Weep Not, Child', 'The River Between', 'Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ' (written in Gikuyu), and 'Detained'. Became Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at University of California.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2409 x 3484
Media Id: 57_429
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: England, London, black and white image, playwright, vertical, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, novelist, 1970s, 1979, writer, author, Kenyans, black African man, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, doorways, archways, standing, leaning, ,
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Image Number: APN154218
Title: Chris van Wyk
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Chris van Wyk. At the Bonteheuwel Library, Mother City Book Festival where South African authors give readings, interviews and encourage lively debate to boost the culture of reading. Chris is a novelist, poet and writer of children's books.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3490 x 2404
Media Id: 57_446
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, South African, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, Bonteheuwel Library, Mother City Book Festival, books, leaning, facing camera, smiling, novelist, poet, children's books, Chris van Wyk, ,
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Image Number: APN154219
Title: James Matthews, Lenrie Peters and Nuruddin Farah
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: James Matthews b.1929 in District Six, Cape Town.Journalist, creative writer and poet. A leading articulator of the Black Consciousness philosophy. Works include 'Cry Rage' (co-authored with Gladys Thomas), 'Pass me a Meatball, Jones' and 'No Time for Dreams'.Lenrie Peters b.1932 Gambia.Poet and novelist. Ed Universities of Cambridge and London. Publications include 'Poems'. 'Satellites' and 'The Second Round'. James Matthews,Lenrie Peters and Nuruddin Farah
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2400 x 3496
Media Id: 57_511
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 1999, 1990s, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape, black African men, South Africans, journalist, creative writing, poet, novelist, walking, talking, discussion, listening, Gambians, James Matthews, Nuruddin Farah, Lenrie Peters, ,
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Image Number: APN154226
Title: Rayda Jacobs
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Rayda Jacobs. b. Capetown but lived in Canada for 27 years. Works include 'Eyes of the Sky" (Herman Charles Bosman Prize),'Sachs Street' and 'Confessions of a Gambler' (Sunday Times Literary Award for fiction and Herman Charles Bosman prize).
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3505 x 2393
Media Id: 57_495
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, novelist, standing, side view, shadows, arum lilies, South African, Rayda Jacobs, ,
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Image Number: APN154232
Title: Andre Brink
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Andre Brink. b. Vrede, South Africa 1935.Emeritus Professor of English at University of Cape Town. Poet, novelist, essayist and teacher. Books include'Kennis van die aand' - the first Afrikaans book to be banned by SA Government. Other works include 'A dry White Season';'An Instant in the Wind' and Rumours of Rain' - both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Has won many awards including the Commonwealth Writer's Prize (2003, 2005, 2006)
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2886 x 2907
Media Id: 57_509
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: South African, black and white image, square, Portraits of African Writers series, Paris, France, writer, portrait, novelist, poet, teacher, arches, talking, discussion, standing, streets, 1998, 1990s, professors, Andre Brink, white African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154234
Title: Lesego Rampolokeng
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Lesego Rampolokeng. 1965 Soweto South Africa. Poet, playwright and novelist. He is a performance poet. Works include 'Talking Rain','Fanon's Children' and 'Whiteheart'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3493 x 2402
Media Id: 57_444
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, Lesego Rampolokeng, Africa, South Africa, poet, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, playwright, novelist, South African, black African man, performance poet, poster, head and shoulders, three quarters view, ,
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Image Number: APN154239
Title: Taban Lo Liyong
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Taban Lo Liyong. b. 1939 Sudan,North Africa. A poet and writer of fiction and literary criticism. Works include'The Last Word','Another Nigger Dead' and 'Another Last Word'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2409 x 3483
Media Id: 57_486
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, poet, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writer, 2002, 2000s, black African men, close-up, head and shoulders, facing camera, critics, Cape Town, Baxter Theatre, Sudanese, novelist, Western Cape, ,
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Image Number: APN154241
Title: JL Viera
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: JL Viera. A celebrated writer of prose fiction. Born 1935 in Portugal and taken to Angloa in 1938.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2916 x 2877
Media Id: 57_455
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, portrait, Portraits of African Writers series, 1980, 1980s, square, side view, head and shoulders, Portuguese, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe, writer, novelist, author, Jose Luandino Vieira, profile, Angolans, ,
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Image Number: APN154242
Title: Alex La Guma with his son, Barto
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Alex La Guma with his son, Barto in London(1925 - 1985). b.in District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. Joined SACP in 1948. Went into exile in 1966 to London.Works include both novels(including A Walk in the Night; In the Fog of the Season's End) and short stories
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: United Kingdom
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3486 x 2406
Media Id: 57_475
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: England, London, black and white image, horizontal, UK, 1972, 1970s, Portraits of African Writers series, authors, writers, portrait, father, son, sitting, table, reading, South African, novelist, Alex La Guma, ,
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Image Number: APN154246
Title: Peter Wilhelm
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Peter Wilhelm. Cape Town South Africa 1943. Novelist, poet and journalist. Works include 'The Mask of Freedom' and 'Falling into the Sun'
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3473 x 2415
Media Id: 57_398
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, horizontal, novelist, Africa, South Africa, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Cape Town, Western Cape, 2005, 2000s, poet, journalist, South African, sitting, wife, dogs, family, facing camera, relaxed, Peter Wilhelm, ,
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Image Number: APN154251
Title: Noureddine Aba
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Noureddine Aba. Novelist, playwright and poet, (1921 - 1996). Born in Algeria. Wrote in French.Works include 'Comme un Oiseau Traque', 'Je Hais Les Trains Depuis Auschwitz' and 'Et l'Algerie des Rois, Sire?'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2390 x 3509
Media Id: 57_438
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, vertical, 1980s, Portraits of African Writers series, 1983, portraits, writers, novelist, playwright, poet, Algerians, standing, facing camera, smiling, advertisements, Noureddine Aba, USA, University of Illinois, ,
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Image Number: APN154255
Title: Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Mbella Sonne Dipoko.1936 in Cameroon. Novelist, poet and painter.Novels'Because of Women','A Few Nights and Days'. Poetry'Black and White in Love'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: Cameroon
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2399 x 3498
Media Id: 57_477
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, side view, vertical, France, Paris, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, painters, poet, black African man, writer, author, streets, 1970, 1970s, Cameroonian people, Mbella Sonne Dipoko, ,
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Image Number: APN154257
Title: Nadine Gordimer
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Nadine Gordimer. b.1923 Springs, South Africa. A political activist and writer of short stories, essays and novels. A founding memeber of Congress of South African writers. Books include'July's People','A Sport of Nature', 'Get a Life'. Awarded the Booker Prize in 1974 and the Nobel prize for Literature in 1991 amongst many other awards.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Country: South Africa
Pixel Size: 2881 x 2911
Media Id: 57_439
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: portrait, facing camera, black and white image, square, 1982, 1980s, Portraits of African Writers series, writer, author, White African woman, Nadine Gordimer, South African, Gaborone, Botswana, Nobel Prizewinners, novelist, ,
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Image Number: APN154258
Title: Meja Mwangi
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Meja Mwangi, Berlin African Writers' conference.. B.1948, Kenya.Novelist, short stories, childrens' books.Worked in film industry. Attended Kenyatta College and the University of Leeds and was Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa.Literary works include 'Kill Me Quick','The Last Plague','The Mzungu Boy'.
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2901 x 2892
Media Id: 57_403
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Germany, Berlin, African writers, Portraits of African Writers series, black and white image, novelist, square, author, 1979, 1970s, African Writer's Conference, Meja Mwangi, portrait, head and shoulders, facing camera, smiling, Kenyans, black African man, ,
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Image Number: APN154260
Title: Zakes Mda
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / George Hallett
Description: Zakes Mda. b.1948, Herschel, South Africa. Novelist, poet and playwright. Now a professor in the English Department at Ohio University, US. Works include 'The Hill' (Amstel Playwright of the Year Award), 'Ways of Dying' (M-Net Book Prize) and 'The Heart of Redness' (Commonwealth Writers Prize: Africa , Sunday Times Fiction Award)
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: George Hallett
Pixel Size: 2912 x 2880
Media Id: 57_501
Credit: George Hallett / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: black and white image, square, Portraits of African Writers series, portrait, writers, Paris, France, novelist, poet, playwright, South African, black African man, standing, bridge, three quarters view, Zakes Mda, ,
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Image Number: APN253106
Title: Samuel Bonnin Hobson
Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / Rhodes University / Cory Library
Description: Graduate of Rhodes University; a teacher, then an official of the Cape Education Department. His Afrikaans novels won him the Hertzog Prize. On his retirement from the Department's services he became a Provincial Councillor. In 1959 he received an Honorary Degree (LLD) at Rhodes University. He was chairman of the Council of Rhodes University for 14 years until his resignation in 1965 due to ill-health. Hobson House residence at Rhodes University was named after him.
Collections: Rhodes University
Subcollections: Cory Library
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3723 x 5123
Media Id: 150_49
Credit: Cory Library / Rhodes University / Africa Media Online
Keywords: vertical, black and white, Grahamstown, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Rhodes University, councillors, teacher, novelist, educationalists, education, books / novels, Afrikaans language, ,
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Image Number: APN272112
Title: Sydney Sipho Sepamla
Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
Description: Sydney Sipho Sepamla, South African poet, playwright and novelist, discusses his latest book, 'A Ride in the Whirlwind', about the 1976 uprising
Collections: Museum Africa
Subcollections: Times Media Collection
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3659 x 5470
Media Id: 459_2
Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN272377
Title: Nadine Gordimer, South African Novelist
Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
Description: She was the first woman for 25 years to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Collections: Museum Africa
Subcollections: Times Media Collection
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3678 x 5517
Media Id: 460_31
Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN283649
Title: Athol Fugard, Playwright
Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
Description: Athol Fugard, playwright, novelist, actor and director seeking a 'corpse' of actors in Johannesburg
Collections: Museum Africa
Subcollections: Times Media Collection
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3724 x 5711
Media Id: 694_20
Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN284205
Title: Author Andre Brink at CNA Literary Awards
Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
Description: The novelist and playwright is seen addressing the audience after winning a literary award from the Central News Agency, at a banquet in Johannesburg
Collections: Museum Africa
Subcollections: Times Media Collection
Country: South Africa
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 5712 x 3736
Media Id: 709_18
Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
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Image Number: APN29458
Path: african.pictures / South Photos / David Goldblatt
Description: DG0239, South Africa, Johannesburg, Nadine Gordimer, writer, novelist, Nobel LauretteDavid Goldblatt/South
Collections: South Photos
Subcollections: David Goldblatt
Country: South Africa
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 4345 x 5551
Media Id: 86_367
Credit: David Goldblatt / South Photos / Africa Media Online
Keywords: portrait, facing camera, black and white image, vertical, Africa, South Africa, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Nadine Gordimer, author, White African woman, 1985, 1980s, posing, Nobel laureate, ,
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Image Number: APN302977
Title: Novelist Thando Mgqolozana who wrote 'The Man Who is Not a Man'
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Rogan Ward
Description: Novelist Thando Mgqolozana who wrote 'The Man Who is Not a Man', a powerful first novel recounts the personal trauma of a young Xhosa initiate after one such circumcision gone wrong, April 15, 2010. © Rogan Ward 2010
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: Rogan Ward
Country: South Africa
Location: UKZN
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 4274 x 2994
Media Id: 8_7754
Credit: Rogan Ward / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords: rogan, ward, novelist, Thando, Mgqolozana, the man who is not a man, xhhosa, initiates, initiation,
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Image Number: APN302981
Title: Novelist Thando Mgqolozana who wrote 'The Man Who is Not a Man'
Path: african.pictures / Independent Photographers / Rogan Ward
Description: Novelist Thando Mgqolozana who wrote 'The Man Who is Not a Man', a powerful first novel recounts the personal trauma of a young Xhosa initiate after one such circumcision gone wrong, April 15, 2010. © Rogan Ward 2010
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections: Rogan Ward
Country: South Africa
Location: UKZN
Pixel Size: 3299 x 3247
Media Id: 8_7758
Credit: Rogan Ward / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords: rogan, ward, novelist, Thando, Mgqolozana, the man who is not a man, xhhosa, initiates, initiation,
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Image Number: APN358602
Path: african.pictures / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: John Dube's grave at the Ohlange Institute. Inanda. Durban. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa. John Langalibalele Dube (1871 - 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress which became the African National Congress in 1923. Dube served as SANNC president between 1912 and 1917. This is part of the Woza eNanda Route.
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe
Country: South Africa
Location: Durban
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 3727 x 5627
Media Id: 981_125
Credit: Roger de la Harpe / Africa Media Online
Keywords: Image, africa, african, blue skies, blue sky, category, city, cloud, clouds, color, colour, concept, culture, day, grave, historical, history, holiday, holiday destination, location, memorial, monument, out door, out doors, outdoor, outdoors, outside, photo, photograph, pic, portrait, sunshine, time, tourism, tourist, town, urban, vertical, weather,
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Image Number: APN358673
Path: african.pictures / Africa Imagery / Roger de la Harpe
Description: Statue of John Dube at the Ohlange Institute in eNanda (Inanda) near Durban. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa. John Langalibalele Dube (1871 - 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress which became the African National Congress in 1923. Dube served as SANNC president between 1912 and 1917. This is part of the Woza eNanda Route.
Collections: Africa Imagery
Subcollections: Roger de la Harpe