LC control no. | n 50041745 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR9369.3.L3 |
Personal name heading | La Guma, Alex |
Variant(s) | Guma, Alex la La Guma, Justin Alexander |
Associated country | London (England) South Africa |
Birth date | 1925 |
Death date | 1985-10 |
Place of birth | Cape Town (South Africa) |
Place of death | Havana (Cuba) |
Field of activity | Anti-apartheid movements |
Affiliation | African National Congress Cape Technical College London School of Journalism Plant Workers Union Young Communists League (South Africa) |
Profession or occupation | Journalists Novelists Authors Labor leaders |
Found in | His A walk in the night, 1962 or 3. Asein, S.O. Alex La Guma, c1987: title page (Alex La Guma) page 4 of cover (d. Oct. 1985) BL database, 27 Jan. 2010 (hdg.: La Guma, Justin Alexander; usage: Alex La Guma) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1925; writer of short stories) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (La Guma, Alex; Justin Alexander La Guma; print journalist, labor organizer/leader, fiction writer, anti-apartheid fighter; born 1925 in Cape Town, South Africa; completed matriculation examinations as night student at Cape Technical College (1945); studied by correspondence at London School of Journalism (1965); joined the Plant Workers Union and Metal Box Company, the Young Communists League (1947) and the South African Communist Party (1948); became a reporter at The Guardian newspaper (later called New Age); became a leader of the South African Colored People's Organization (SACPO) (1954); was one of the 156 accused in Treason Trial (1956-1961); went with his family into exile in London (1966); worked as insurance clerk, journalist, and radio scriptwriter, London; was the ANC representative in the Caribbean, Havana, Cuba (1978-1985); became one of the most respected South African novelists in sub-Saharan Africa; died 1985 in Havana, Cuba) |