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   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Peter Abrahams (born March 3, 1919, Vrededorp, near Johannesburg, South Africa—died January 18, 2017, Kingston, Jamaica) was a South African-born writer who penned perceptive and powerful novels about the injustices and complexities of racial politics.

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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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   Who was Peter Henry Abrahams Deras?

   • His father, Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, had migrated to South Africa from Ethiopia and died when Abrahams was just a boy. His death sent the family — already on the brink of poverty — even deeper into destitution. Abrahams ’ mother, Angelina DuPlessis, struggled with poor health and was often unable to work.

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   Is Abrahams a good book?

   • In contrast, Booklist contributor Thomas Gaughan uniformly praised Abrahams’ characterizations as well as complimenting the author’s “complex and compelling [plotting]” and almost flawless [dialogue].”Gaughan noted, however, that the “satisfying” novel has “a subtle sense of the mathematical certainty to the denouement.”

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   • A religious training ground for would-be teachers, the school exposed Abrahams to the literary history of the ruling Afrikaner class. Impressed by the beauty of the language, Abrahams tried his hand at writing verse in Afrikaans. He was also strongly influenced by the literary aspects of the Bible.

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   Peter Abrahams (born March 3, 1919, Vrededorp, near Johannesburg, South Africa—died January 18, 2017, Kingston, Jamaica) was a South African-born writer who penned perceptive and powerful novels about the injustices and complexities of racial politics.

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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. [1]

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   Peter Abrahams (born June 28, 1947) is an American author of crime fiction for both adults and children. His book Lights Out (1994) was nominated for an Edgar Award for best novel. Reality Check won the best young adult Edgar Award in 2011.

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   Jan 22, 2017 · Peter Abrahams, a South African writer whose journalism and novels explored, with sensitivity and passion, the injustices of apartheid and the complexities of racial politics, died on...

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   Learn more about Peter Abrahams, who also writes under the pen name Spencer Quinn

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   Peter Abrahams is the best-selling author of over 30 crime fiction novels, including The Fan (adapted to film) and Reality Check (Edgar Award winner).

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    May 23, 2018 · Selected writings. Sources. With the publication of his seminal novel Mine Boy in 1946, Peter Abrahams became the first author to bring the horrific reality of South Africa ’ s apartheid system of racial discrimination to international attention.