Die liter\u00eare w\u00eareld ween na die afsterwe van een van sy groot liter\u00eare reuse, die bekroonde digter en dramaturg Adam Small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Sondagkoerant Rapport<\/i> berig Small is Saterdag 25 Junie op ouderdom 79 in die Kingsbury-hospitaal in Claremont, Kaapstad, oorlede n\u00e1 komplikasies n\u00e1 \u2019n operasie aan sy linkerbeen om die bloedsomloop te verbeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julian Jansen, Rapport<\/i>-verslaggewer, skryf dat Small vir \u2019n lang tyd aan progressiewe hartversaking gely het en weens die pyn in sy been het hy met groot moeite geloop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is op 21 Desember 1936 op die Bolandse dorp Wellington gebore, maar het sy vroe\u00eb kinderjare op Robertson spandeer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vanjaar sou hy sy 80ste verjaardag vier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luidens Jansen het Small in 1944 saam met sy gesin na Retreat in Kaapstad verhuis waar sy pa skoolhoof geword het. Hier het die jong Adam vir die eerste keer kennis gemaak met die Afrikaans van die stedelike werkersklas. Dit is di\u00e9 Kaapse Afrikaans wat later \u2019n kenmerk van baie van sy verse sou word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1954 begin hy medies studeer aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad. Hy slaan egter gou oor na filosofie en Afrikaans, \u2019n vak waarin hy \u201cal die Boertjies geklop het\u201d. Hy behaal uiteindelik sy meestergraad in filosofie aan Ikeys in 1957. In dieselfde jaar verskyn sy eerste digbundel, Verse van die liefde<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 verdere studies aan die London School of Economics (onder die w\u00eareldbekende Karl Popper) keer hy terug na Suid-Afrika waar hy in 1959 aangestel word as filosofiedosent by Fort Hare, voordat hy in 1960 een van die eerste 13 personeellede van die nuut gestigte Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1963 vertrek hy na Oxford vir verdere studie. Dis hier waar sy idees vir sy bekendste drama, Kanna hy k\u00f4 hystoe<\/i>, beslag kry. Die drama word uiteindelik in 1965 gepubliseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 \u2019n lang loopbaan as akademikus, skrywer en politieke aktivis, onttrek Small hom in die 1990\u2019s heeltemal uit die openbare lewe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2012 word die Hertzogprys vir drama aan hom toegeken. \u2019n Jaar later tree hy vir die eerste keer in byna 20 jaar in die openbaar op met die bekendstelling van \u2019n nuwe bundel, Klawerjas<\/i>, sy eerste gepubliseerde werk sedert sy drama Krismis van Map Jacobs <\/i>in 1983, presies 30 jaar tevore, berig Jansen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In \u2019n verklaring ter nagedagtenis aan Small, beskryf die aanlynbeweging Afrikaans.com hom as \u201cvoorloper van \u2019n hele generasie Afrikaanse digters en iemand wat in sy leeftyd \u2019n belangrike bydrae gelewer het om \u2019n bewustheid te kweek van die wel en wee van die onderdruktes en die werkersklasgemeenskap waarin hy geleef en gewerk het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Hartseer prof. Theuns Eloff, voorsitter van Dagbreek Trust, finansierder van Afrikaans.com, s\u00ea, \u201choewel prof. Small aan die einde van sy lewe klein in gestalte was, was hy \u2019n reus onder sy tydgenote en vir Afrikaans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns eer sy nagedagtenis en sal voortbou op die groot werk wat hy begin het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Small word oorleef deur twee seuns uit sy eerste huwelik, John en Leon, sy vrou Rosalie en hul kinders Peter-John en Zaidee, asook agt kleinkinders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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