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Richard Rive (1931–1989)

Author of 'Buckingham Palace', District Six

11+ Works 136 Members 1 Review

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Works by Richard Rive

'Buckingham Palace', District Six (1986) 56 copies

The Emergency Continued (1988) 34 copies

Advance, Retreat: Selected Short Stories (1983) 11 copies

Modern African Prose (1964) — Editor — 11 copies

Olive Schreiner: Letters; v. 1, 1871-1899 (1987) — Editor — 7 copies

Emergency (1970) 5 copies

Quartet: New Voices from South Africa (1965) 4 copies

SEME: The founder of the ANC (1991) 3 copies

African songs (1963) 2 copies

Writing black (1981) 2 copies

Selected writings (1977) 1 copy

Associated Works

An African Treasury (1960) — Contributor — 72 copies

The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories (1985) — Contributor — 51 copies

The Invisible Ghetto: Lesbian & Gay Writing from South Africa (1993) — Contributor — 17 copies

African Voices (1958) — Contributor — 16 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Rive, Richard Moore
Birthdate: 1931-03-01
Date of death: 1989-06-04
Gender: male
Nationality: South Africa
Birthplace: Cape Town, South Africa
Place of death: Cape Town, South Africa
Education: University of Cape Town
Columbia University
University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
Occupations: short-story writer
novelist
teacher
literary critic

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SEME: The founder of the ANC by Richard Rive

I picked this up at Arise! bookstore in Minneapolis. When I got home, I flipped through it and realized that the founder of the ANC went to my fucking high school! I was floored. Hooray for NMH! GO HOGGERS!

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Statistics

Works: 11
Also by: 4
Members: 136
Popularity: #149,926
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 32
Languages: 4

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