Alex La Guma

Japanese: ラ･グーマ（英語表記）Alex La Guma

1925‐85
A South African coloured writer. At a young age, he participated in the anti-apartheid movement, based in Cape Town, and during his repeated imprisonment he wrote the novella Wandering in the Night (1962), which depicts the hardships and downfalls of a coloured youth, the novel And the Triple-Woven Cord (1964), and the prison memoir Stone Country (1967). In 1966, he defected to Britain. Since then, he has published many short stories, including In the Mist at the End of the Season (1972), which depicts the human drama of the underground anti-apartheid movement, A Journey to the Soviet Union (1978), and When the Shrike Skewers an Insect (1979).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1925‐85
南アフリカ共和国出身のカラード作家。若くしてケープ･タウンを拠点にアパルトヘイト反対闘争に参加，度重なる獄中生活で，カラード青年の苦難と転落を描く中編《夜の彷徨》(1962)，長編《そして三重織りの紐は》(1964)，獄中記というべき《石の国》(1967)などを書いた。66年イギリスへ亡命。以後アパルトヘイト反対地下組織の人間模様を描く《季節の終りの霧の中で》(1972)，《ソビエト紀行》(1978)，《モズが虫を串刺しにする時》(1979)などの長編を発表したほか，短編も多い。

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