![]() The authors all reflected on non-racial enclaves in South Africa during that era: Rive focused on District Six, Govender on Cato Manor, and Mattera on Sophiatown. On 23 August 2013, at the Aziz Hassim Literary Awards held in Durban, Rive and two other esteemed South African authors, Ronnie Govender and Don Mattera, were honoured for their contributions to the fight against apartheid through literature. Rive's last novel, Emergency Continued, was completed two weeks before his death. Rive also published an autobiography entitled Writing Black in 1981. Buckingham Palace District Six was published in 1986 and turned into a musical by the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Emergency (1964) was set against the Sharpeville massacre. He also wrote three novels that were published in his lifetime. "The Bench" takes the well known story of Rosa Parks and sets it in South Africa. His short story "The Bench", for which he won a prize, is still anthologised. He edited anthologies for Heinemann's African Writers Series: the short story anthology Quartet (1963) - containing stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh and Rive himself - and the prose anthology Modern African Prose (1964). His collection African Songs was published in 1963 by Seven Seas Books. Rive initially published his stories in South African magazines such as Drum and Fighting Talk. He was stabbed to death at his home in Cape Town in 1989, when he was 58 years old. He also delivered guest lectures at more than 50 universities on four continents.Ī firm believer in anti-racism, Rive decided to stay in his country with the hope of influencing its development there. He was a visiting professor at several overseas universities, including Harvard University in 1987. Rive was for many years Head of the English Department at Hewat College. His doctoral thesis on Olive Schreiner would be published posthumously, in 1996. Raised by a single mother in District Six he became internationally recognised and acclaimed. He earned an MA degree (1966) from Columbia University in the United States, and a Ph.D. Richard Rive was an exceptional writer, teacher and academic. In 1965 Rive was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. His first novel, Emergency was published in 1964. In 1963 he was given a scholarship organised by Es'kia Mphahlele, the editor of Drum magazine, in which Rive published some of his early writing. He acquired a BA degree from the University of Cape Town in 1962. He was a prominent sportsman (a South African hurdles champion while a student) and a school sports administrator. In 1951 he went to Hewat College of Education in Athlone, where he qualified as a teacher. Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School, both in District Six. Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid. Richard has 1 job listed on their profile. His father was African, and his mother was Coloured. View Richard Rives profile on LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional community. Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class Coloured residential area District Six of Cape Town. ![]() Please email if you would like to attend and we will send you the Zoom link.Richard Moore Rive (1 March 1931 – 4 June 1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town. His biography of Rive was published by Wits Press in 2013, and was a finalist for the Alan Paton Award. His research focuses on South African literature and queer studies. Shaun Viljoen is Associate Professor in English at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Rive left his library to Magdalen College, and the seminar room in the Longwall Library is named after him. He wrote poems, short stories and novels, including ‘Buckingham Palace District Six’ and ‘Emergency’ which was set against the Sharpesville Massacre. Rive was an active non-racist and anti-racist voice speaking out against apartheid. Richard Moore Rive was born in Cape Town in 1931 and studied for his DPhil at Magdalen College 1971-1974. Richard Rive, in full Richard Moore Rive, (born March 1, 1931, Cape Town, S.Af. To mark the renaming of the Longwall Seminar Room after the South African writer and scholar Richard Rive, the library is hosting an online lecture on Rive, his life and politics, by Shaun Viljoen, his recent biographer. ![]() ![]() Tuesday 23 February (6th week) 2021, 5.30pm, online
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