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Peter Abrahams
Sign in to saveAlso known as Peter Henry Abrahams Deras
South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 54
Top works
- Bullet Point
- Up All Night
- Tell Freedom Memories Of Africa
- Mine boy
- Jamaica
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 983
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,909x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,195x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,723x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,303x
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Quotes
- “A strange group of people, these, he thought. Nothing tied them down. They seem to believe in nothing. But well, they had given him a bed. She had given it to him. She who was the strangest of them all.”
- “An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma.”
- “Hoopvlei was another of the white man's ventures to get the natives and coloreds out of the towns. The natives did not like the locations, and besides, they were all full, so the white man had started townships in the outlying district of Johannesburg in the hope of killing Vrededorp and Malay Camp. Many other places had been killed thus.”
- “He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her.”
- “I am no good and I cannot help myself. It will be right if you hate me. You should beat me. But inside me there is something wrong. And it is because I want the things of the white people. I want to be like the white people and go where they go and do the things they do and I am black. I cannot help it. Inside I am not black and I do not want to be a black person.”
- “I pushed my nose and lip...I was inside the raindrop away from the misery of the cold damp room. I was in a place of warmth and sunshine, inside my raindrop world.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Henry Abrahams Deras , ( 1919-03-03 ) 3 March 1919, Vrededorp , Transvaal , Union of South Africa
- Died
- 18 January 2017 (2017-01-18) (aged 97), Saint Andrew Parish , Jamaica
- Occupation
- Novelist, journalist, political commentator
- Nationality
- South African and Jamaican
- Notable works
- Mine Boy (1946) , Tell Freedom (1954) , A Wreath for Udomo (1956)
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- date of birth
- 1919-01-01
- date of death
- 2017-01-18
- birth name
- Peter Henry Abrahams Deras
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Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder.
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