Adam Small, South African writer and poet, Died at 79

  Writer

Adam Small was born on December 21, 1936, and died on June 25, 2016.

He was a South African writer.

Small was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism.

Adam was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.

A few of his collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English.

Adam Small passed away at 79 years old.