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Peter Abrahams

1919 - 2017

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Abrahams is the 1,367th most popular writer (up from 1,740th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 34th in 2019) and the 4th most popular South African Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Abrahams ranks 1,367 out of 7,302. Before him are Li Qingzhao, Vidyapati, Qiu Jin, Alfonsina Storni, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Ba Jin. After him are Honoré d'Urfé, Alexander Radishchev, Boris Pahor, Georg Kaiser, Pío Baroja, and Ignazio Silone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Peter Abrahams ranks 60. Before him are Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Abdel Hakim Amer, Chavela Vargas, Ian Smith, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Valentino Mazzola. After him are Ryszard Kaczorowski, José Villalonga, Licio Gelli, Charles Sweeney, Margaret Burbidge, and Maurice Herzog. Among people deceased in 2017, Peter Abrahams ranks 83. Before him are Peter L. Berger, René Préval, Azzedine Alaïa, Nicolai Gedda, Michael Nyqvist, and Zhou Youguang. After him are Jake LaMotta, Abdul Halim of Kedah, Lubomyr Husar, Fats Domino, Charlie Murphy, and Anita Pallenberg.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Peter Abrahams ranks 36 out of 454. Before him are Navi Pillay (1941), Charlize Theron (1975), P. W. Botha (1916), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Angelique Rockas (1951), and Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798). After him are Seymour Papert (1928), Jim Fouché (1898), Jan Smuts (1870), Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Glynis Johns (1923), and Abba Eban (1915).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Peter Abrahams ranks 4. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), and Nadine Gordimer (1923). After him are André Brink (1935), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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