Rive, Richard

Rive, Richard

▪ South African author
in full  Richard Moore Rive  
born March 1, 1931, Cape Town, S.Af.
died June 4/5, 1989, Cape Town

      South African writer, literary critic, and teacher whose short stories, which were dominated by the ironies and oppression of apartheid and by the degradation of slum life, have been extensively anthologized and translated into more than a dozen languages. He was considered to be one of South Africa's most important short-story writers.

      Rive grew up in Cape Town and with scholarship help attended high school and the University of Cape Town (graduated 1949). He taught at Hewat Training College and at a large Cape Town high school, where he was also athletic coach (he was himself a hurdling champion). In 1962 he traveled widely in Africa and Europe, teaching and lecturing and absorbing recent trends in African literature in English.

      Quartet: New Voices from South Africa (1963; a selection of 16 short stories by four writers including Rive), African Songs (1963; Rive's own short stories), Modern African Prose (1964; an anthology edited by Rive and designed for use by students), and Emergency (1964; a novel about the events of the Sharpeville massacre and state of emergency in 1960) were published soon after his return to South Africa. Rive received an M.A. (1966) from Columbia University in New York City and a D.Phil. from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1974. Selected Writings, a collection of essays, short stories, and plays, was published in 1977. In 1981 he published Writing Black: An Author's Notebook. Rive's short stories are characterized by great imaginative and technical power, a skillful use of leitmotifs, and realistic dialogue.

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