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Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje Born (1876-10-09) 9 October 1876 Doornfontein near Boshof, Orange Free State Died 19 June 1932 (1932-06-19) (aged 55) Pimville, Soweto, Union of South Africa Resting place West End Cemetery, Kimberley Nationality South African Occupation(s) Writer and political figure Known for Founder member of the SANNC Spouse Elizabeth Lilith M'belle Children 6 Plaatje's voice ...
Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago is a South African novel by Sol Plaatje first published in 1930,. The novel was republished many times subsequently, including in the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.
The Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is a bi-annual prize, first awarded in 2007, [1] for translation of prose or poetry into English from any of the other South African official languages. It is administered by the English Academy of South Africa, and was named in honour of Sol Plaatje .
Entrance at Sol Plaatje Museum. The Sol Plaatje Museum and Library is in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, in a house where Solomon T. Plaatje lived during his last years at 32 Angel Street, Malay Camp. It was here that Plaatje wrote Mhudi. [citation needed] The Sol Plaatje Educational Trust was set up in 1991 to serve as a custodian for ...
Sol Plaatje University is a public university located in Kimberley, South Africa. Established in 2014, it is the first and only university located in the Northern Cape province. Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje , 1876-1932, after whom the university is named: intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, writer
He served thrice as the Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He served as a senior cabinet minister under the governments of C. N. Annadurai , M. Karunanidhi , M. G. Ramachandran and J. Jayalalithaa .
Lakshmi Holmström MBE (1 June 1935 – 6 May 2016 [1] [2]) was an Indian-British writer, literary critic, and translator of Tamil fiction into English. Her most prominent works were her translations of short stories and novels by contemporary writers in Tamil, such as Mauni, Pudhumaipithan, Ashoka Mitran, Sundara Ramasami, C. S. Lakshmi, Bama, and Imayam.
Tamil Nadu (/ ˌ t æ m ɪ l ˈ n ɑː d uː /; Tamil: [ˈtamiɻ ˈnaːɽɯ] ⓘ, abbr. TN) is the southernmost state of India.The tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, who speak the Tamil language—the state's official language and one of the longest surviving classical languages of the world.