Richard Rive

(1931-1989). Short-story writer, essayist, novelist and dramatist. Born in Cape Town, educated at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Columbia and Oxford, murdered in Cape Town in *?. Considered by some to be the finest ‘non-white’ writer in South Africa, he is best known for his short stories and the novel Buckingham Palace, District Six (published in 1986), which has also been adapted into a successful play (performed by the Baxter Theatre in 1989). Rive himself adapted his short story Resurrection into an one-act play, and won the BBC African Theatre Competition of 1972 with another one-act play, Make Like Slaves.

Sources

See Gosher, 1988 [JH]

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