Alex La Guma
South African novelist and Communist Party member whose stark, precisely observed fiction about the Cape Coloured community under apartheid produced some of the finest protest fiction of the 20th century.
Works
- A Walk in the NightNovella about a young man's tragic night in segregated Cape Town streets
- In the Fog of the Seasons' EndNovel following activists resisting apartheid oppression and state violence
- Time of the Butcherbird
- The Stone CountryPrison novel portraying brutal conditions and human resilience under apartheid