Adam Small | |
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| Born | 21 December 1936 Wellington, South Africa |
| Died | 25 June 2016 (aged 79) Cape Town, South Africa |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Poetry |
| Height | 1,905mm |
Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016)[1] was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation.[2] Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English.