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Hugh Lewin

ヒュー・ルーウィン

Hyū Rūwin

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1939-12-03 （Lydenburg）
Died
2019-01-16 （Killarney, Johannesburg） age 79
Nationality
South Africa
Languages
English
Religion
Anglican
Residence History
Lydenburg → Pretoria Central Prison → London → Zimbabwe → Johannesburg

Career

Occupations
anti-apartheid activist, writer, journalist
Active Years
1959-2019
Affiliations
Liberal Party (South Africa), Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Baobab Press
Memberships
African Resistance Movement

Education

Rhodes University
Country: South Africa
Became a journalist after

Awards

Olive Schreiner Prize
2003
Work: Bandiet: Out of Jail
Result: winner
Alan Paton Award
2011
Work: Stones Against the Mirror
Organization: Sunday Times
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Bandiet: Seven Years in a South African Prison

1974 memoir

Account of his seven years in a South African prison. Republished in 2002 as Bandiet: Out of Jail.

apartheidimprisonmentresistance

Stones Against the Mirror

2011 non-fiction

Friendship in the time of the South African Struggle.

friendshipstruggle

Jafta series

children's books

Jafta series of books for children and young adults.

childrenAfrica

Style & Themes

Literary Style
direct stylepersonal memoir
Recurring Motifs
resistancefriendshipimprisonment

Health

  • Lewy body dementia
    晩年
    Suffered in his later years

Legacy

Key figure in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement and writer known for his prison memoir.

Trivia

  • Discovered maternal Jewish ancestry in the 1970s but was not a practising Jew.
  • Kept a secret record of his prison experiences on Bible pages.