Richard Rive
Richard Rive (* 1930 in Cape Town ; † June 4, 1989 ibid) was a South African writer.
Life
Rive was born in 1931 in the working-class district of Cape Town called District Six as Colored . In his youth he was a hurdler and later worked as a teacher for a long time. He received a Fulbright scholarship in 1965 and later a research grant from Oxford University . There he also wrote his doctoral thesis on Olive Schreiner . Rive was against apartheid . Unlike some of his colleagues, he returned to South Africa after his studies and stood up for those who were discriminated against.
Much of his work was published in the first half of the 1960s, for example the short stories Dagga-smoker's Dream and The Bench , which exposed the atrocities of the apartheid system. At first he concentrated on this type of prose and published it as collections or in magazines such as Drum and Fighting Talk , later he wrote three more novels: Emergency (1964), Buckingham Palace, District Six (1986) and Emergency Continued (1990); he also published an autobiography entitled Writing Black (1981).
Rive was stabbed to death in his Cape Town home in 1989. The murder, probably committed by two young men together, was related to Rive's little-known homosexuality . His last novel was published posthumously.
literature
- Shaun Viljoen: A Skewed Biography. Cape Town 2006.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Rive in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rive, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4th 1989 |
| Place of death | Cape Town |