Alan Paton

Person · Open Library

Born

1903

Died

1988

Works

61

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Film & TV

Writing

Known for

• In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid — Self (archive footage)1994

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

South Africa

Active from

1903

Active to

1988

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

43

Total plays

604

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

   · 2013 · cited 34,828x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,208x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,887x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

5. DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

   · 2018 · cited 18,276x

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Quotes

• “We had two masters of the spoken word in South Africa, General Smuts and his lieutenant J. H. Hofmeyr, whose life I wrote. Smuts spoke in a high-pitched voice, not the kind of voice that one would expect from a famous soldier, but he too could hold an audience in the hollow of his hand, partly because he was Smuts, partly because he could say nothing trite or shallow, partly because he knew how to speak to ordinary men and women.”
• “I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”
• “The white man has broken the tribe. And it is my belief—and again I ask your pardon—that it cannot be mended again. But the house that is broken, and the man that falls apart when the house is broken, these are the tragic things. That is why children break the law, and old white people are robbed and beaten.”
• “I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men . . . desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it. . . . I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”
• “This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. . . . Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.”
• “The truth is that our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of high assurance and desperate anxiety, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions. Allow me a minute. . . .”

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Key facts

Born

Alan Stewart Paton , ( 1903-01-11 ) 11 January 1903 , Pietermaritzburg , Colony of Natal , (in modern KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa )

Died

12 April 1988 (1988-04-12) (aged 85), Botha's Hill , South Africa

Occupation

Author anti-apartheid activist

Language

English

Notable works

Cry, the Beloved Country ;, Too Late the Phalarope , The Waste Land

Spouse

Dorrie Francis Lusted ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1928 ⁠ – ⁠ 1967 ) ​ , Anne Hopkins ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 ⁠ – ⁠ 1988 ) ​

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