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🚀 The Alan Paton Legacy Project . . . is now launched 🚀 The Alan Paton Trust is over the moon to announce the launch of our new website! For more, see: 🔑: alanpatontrust.co.za

The Trust extends our heartfelt gratitude to Whitaker House, for our sensational first Royalty Statement, for the United States edition of Alan Paton's 'Instrument of Peace' (2025).

Hey, folks! If you love memoirs, write memoirs, or love Brooke Warner and Memoir Nation (the podcast for writers memoirnation.com/podcast), sign up for our Life Writing Panel, which will air on Memoir Nation in January or February. Register tinyurl.com/bdetaxf9 with Jessica Powers

Chairman of the Liberal Party, Alan Paton, addresses a crowd in Fordsburg about the harm done to South Africa by the Group Areas Act, July 1957. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection

Born #onthisday1903 Alan Paton South African #authorresolute anti-apartheid activist & prolific #essayist on South African race and political issues signature #novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) adapted for film (1951) & (1955) changed the course of his life Too Late the …

[ON AIR] TODAY IN HISTORY 1903:  11 JANUARY, 1903, ALAN STEWARD PATON, AUTHOR OF CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY WAS BORN IN PIETERMARITZBURG, NATAL PROVINCE. Tshegohaco Moagi is in conversation with Professor in the English Department at the University of Johannesburg, Professor Lucy

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. Alan Paton (11 Jan 1903 – 12 Apr 1988), South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, born 123 years ago today. Best known for 1948

Indian Activists outside Central jail in prayer with Alan Paton in remembrance of Valliamma R Munuswami Mudaliar. Mudaliar was imprisoned for marching against the South African Union's oppressive laws and consequently lost her life after contracting an illness in prison in 1914

#OTD Alan Paton (Jan 11, 1903 – Apr 12, 1988). South African writer, anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land. Paton was a white man in a country of oppressed Blacks

Bona tarda a la bona gent❤️✊💜 #Aniversario #InMemoriam . “La tragedia no es que las cosas estén rotas. La tragedia es que las cosas no se vuelvan a arreglar.’’ . Alan Paton (Sudáfrica, 11/1/1903 - 1988)

January 11, 1903: Alan Paton (GI 1903-1988) South African author/anti-apartheid activist Cry, The Beloved Country (1948).

Happy bookish birthdays, 11 January, to: Diana Gabaldon (the Outlander series), Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), Mary Rodgers (Freaky Friday)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/hap…

Die skrywer Alan Paton is op 11 Januarie 1903 in Pietermaritzburg gebore. Sy pa was ‘n Skotse immigrant en het hom aan letterkunde voorgestel en ‘n liefde vir die natuur by hom tuisgebring. Paton is op 12 April 1988 in Durban aan keelkanker oorlede.

Andromeda Remembers Alan Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist, on his birthday. andromeda-books.com andromeda-mixed-media.shop "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man."