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1972 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972. Events *May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard in North London, which he has shared with his wife and son – actors Jill Balcon and Daniel Day-Lewis – and at weekends with Kingsley's writer son Martin Amis and others. *June 4 – The poet Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. *October – In Somali Democratic Republic, Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali Latin alphabet as the country's official writing script. *October 6–October 7, 7 – The new Staatstheater Darmstadt is opened. *October 8 – The play ''Sizwe Bansi is Dead'' has its first performance at the Space Theatre (Cape Town), South Africa, before a multiracial audience. Playwright Athol Fugard directs, with co-writers John Kani and Winston Ntshona in lead roles. *October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somali Latin Alphabet
The Somali Latin alphabet is an official writing system in the Somalia, Federal Republic of Somalia and its constituent States and regions of Somalia, Federal Member States. It was developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali_language, Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W. Andrzejewski and Shire Jama Ahmed specifically for transcribing the Somali language, and is based on the Latin script. The Somali Latin alphabet uses all letters of the English Latin alphabet with the exception of ''p'', ''v'' and ''z''. There are no diacritics or other special characters, although it includes three consonant Digraph (orthography), digraphs: DH, KH and SH. Tone is not marked and a word-initial glottal stop is also not shown.H.I. Galaal, pp. 4-11 Capital letters are used for names and at the beginning of a sentence. Form The Somali Latin alphabet is largely orthography, phonemic, with Somali_phonology#Consonants, consonants having a one-to-one Grapheme#Relationship with phoneme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Isabel Barreno
Maria Isabel Barreno de Faria Martins GOIH (10 July 1939 – 3 September 2016) was a Portuguese writer, essayist, journalist and sculptor. She was one of the authors of the book '' Novas Cartas Portugesas'' (''New Portuguese Letters''), together with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution. Biography Born in Lisbon in the freguesia of Socorro, her parents moved to Areeiro, where she spent her childhood and adolescence. She studied College of Letters at the Universidade de Lisboa, where she graduated in Historico-Philosophical Sciences. After graduation she took a job working for the Instituto de In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman, (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. Life Early life and education Betjeman was born in London to a prosperous silverware maker of Dutch descent. His parents, Mabel () and Ernest Betjemann, had a family firm at 34–42 Pentonville Road which manufactured the kind of ornamental household furniture and gadgets distinctive to Victorians. During the First World War the family name was changed to the less German-looking Betjeman. His father's forebears had actually come from the present day Netherlands more than a century earlier, setting up their home and business in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 10
Events Pre-1600 * 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province. * 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. * 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France. * 1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark. *1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the '' Santa Maria'', attempt a mutiny. * 1575 – Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. *1580 – Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion. 1601–1900 *1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Ntshona
Winston Ntshona (6 October 1941 – 2 August 2018) was a South African playwright and actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1975. Biography Born in Port Elizabeth, Zola Winston Ntshona worked alongside fellow South African Athol Fugard on several occasions, most notably in the 1980 film version of Fugard's play ''Marigolds in August'', and played a minor role in Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film ''Gandhi'' (1982) and a major role in the film '' A Dry White Season'' (1989). Career Ntshona attended Newell High School in Port Elizabeth, where he met long time collaborator and South African acting legend John Kani. Between 1963 and 1972 Ntshona worked as a laboratory assistant in a timber factory. In 1967 he joined the Serpent Players drama group alongside John Kani and Athol Fugard. Black members of the drama group all had day time jobs. Rehearsals and workshops would take place in the evenings or during weekends. Reputation of their work grew over time, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kani
Bonisile John Kani (born 30 August 1942) is a South African actor. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016) and ''Black Panther'' (2018), Rafiki in ''The Lion King'' (2019) and '' Mufasa: The Lion King'' as well as Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix films ''Murder Mystery'' (2019) and '' Murder Mystery 2'' (2023). Early and personal life Kani was born on 30 August 1942 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth In the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. In 1975, after appearing in Athol Fugard's anti-apartheid play '' Sizwe Banzi Is Dead'', which he also co-wrote, in the United States, Kani returned to South Africa. There, he received a phone call saying that his father wanted to see him. On his way there, he was surrounded by police who beat him and left him for dead. His left eye was lost as a result of the incident, and he now wears a prosthesis which is technically a glass eye. His son Atandwa Kani, Atandwa is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athol Fugard
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (; 11 June 19328 March 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by ''Time'' magazine in 1985, he published more than thirty plays. He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel '' Tsotsi'' was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. Three plays he wrote, and two plays he co-authored, were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. Fugard received many awards, honours and honorary degrees, including the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver from the government of South Africa in 2005 "for his excellent contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini; and it encloses Lesotho. Covering an area of , the country has Demographics of South Africa, a population of over 64 million people. Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament of South Africa, Parliament, is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is regarded as the judicial capital. The largest, most populous city is Johannesburg, followed by Cape Town and Durban. Cradle of Humankind, Archaeological findings suggest that various hominid species existed in South Africa about 2.5 million years ago, and modern humans inhabited the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Theatre (Cape Town)
The Space Theatre (also called the Space, ''Die Ruimte'' in Afrikaans, The Peoples' Space and reincarnated as the New Space Theatre in 2008) was a fringe theatre in Cape Town, South Africa which was active in the 1970s. It re-opened in late 2008. History The original Space was founded in Cape Town in May 1972 by theatre photographer Brian Astbury and his actress wife Yvonne Bryceland and relocated in 1976 to the YMCA building 44 Long Street. The Space established itself as a defiantly non-racial venue in a racially divided country. Taken over by Moyra Fine and Rob Amato after Astbury and Bryceland left, it survived as The People's Space for some two years before succumbing to overwhelming financial pressures. Productions The first pioneering fringe theatre in the country (before Market and Baxter Theatres), it mounted almost 300 productions, starting with the premier of Athol Fugard's ''Statements After an Arrest under the Immorality Act''. It hosted the first productions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
''Sizwe Banzi Is Dead'' (originally produced and published as: ''Sizwe Bansi is Dead'') is a play by Athol Fugard, written collaboratively with two South African actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, both of whom appeared in the original production. Its world première occurred on 8 October 1972 at the Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa. Its subsequent British première won a London Theatre Critics Award for the Best Play of 1974. Its American première occurred at the Edison Theatre, in New York City, on 13 November 1974.. Accessed 1 October 2008. It has been ranked among the best plays ever made by ''The Independent'', where it was described as a "deceptively light and humane play that outlasts the apartheid era." Plot synopsis The play opens in the photography studio of a man named Styles. The studio is located in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After reading a newspaper article on an automobile plant, Styles tells a humorous story to the audience about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 8
Events Pre-1600 * 316 – Constantine I Battle of Cibalae, defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. * 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. * 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger Battle of Andernach (876), prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles the Bald, Charles II ("the Bald"). *1075 – Demetrius Zvonimir of Croatia, Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia. *1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England. *1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska. *1480 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tatar rule over Moscow *1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War. 1601–1900 *1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal. *1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
