Alan Paton Will Trust

A Charitable Division of the Ewing Trust Company
Literary Agent: [email protected]

[Alan Paton Will Trust @ThePatonTrust]

Southern African licensing negotiations for a lesser known, though no less heartfelt work, that Alan Paton wrote while his wife Dorrie, lay dying, will now commence.
We are bringing the literary treasures of South Africa, home! 🇿🇦

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An absolute, and jovial pleasure it was for the Trust to recently meet Emily Graff, Executive Editor at Scribner, to discuss a forthcoming project . . . ☺️

For Scribner's latest releases, including poetry collections, see:
https://t.co/SMMVYV3HBh

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The Trust extends our sincere gratitude to the Authors Guild, as well as our assigned attorney, Reetu.

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💫 Cover Reveal of the new Spanish edition of Alan Paton's 'Cry, the Beloved Country' 💫

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The Trust extends our appreciation of the auspicious & enduring contributions - by Darryl Earl David & David Attwell - to South African Literature.

"The Topos of the Priest in [. . .]" is the 2026 theme:
Friday, 05 June
11H00 – 12H00 (SAST)

To RSVP:
🔑: https://t.co/fIhtuM3Agv

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Chairman of the Liberal Party, Alan Paton, addresses a crowd in Fordsburg about the harm done to South Africa by the Group Areas Act, July 1957. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection

[DavidDoesWords @daviddoeswords]

Born #onthisday1903 Alan Paton South African #authorresolute anti-apartheid activist & prolific #essayist on South African race and political issues signature #novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) adapted for film (1951) & (1955) changed the course of his life Too Late the …

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[ON AIR] TODAY IN HISTORY
1903:  11 JANUARY, 1903, ALAN STEWARD PATON, AUTHOR OF CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY WAS BORN IN PIETERMARITZBURG, NATAL PROVINCE.

@TshegoMoagi_ is in conversation with
Professor in the English Department at the University of Johannesburg, Professor Lucy Valerie Graham.

#POWERWeekendBreakfast

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

Alan Paton (11 Jan 1903 – 12 Apr 1988), South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, born 123 years ago today. Best known for 1948 novel "Cry, the Beloved Country". #AlanPaton #CryTheBelovedCountry
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[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Indian Activists outside Central jail in prayer with Alan Paton in remembrance of Valliamma R Munuswami Mudaliar. Mudaliar was imprisoned for marching against the South African Union's oppressive laws and consequently lost her life after contracting an illness in prison in 1914 at the age of 16. Source: Our Constitution/We the People

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Bona tarda a la bona gent❤️✊💜
#Aniversario #InMemoriam

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“La tragedia no es que las cosas estén rotas. La tragedia es que las cosas no se vuelvan a arreglar.’’

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Alan Paton
(Sudáfrica, 11/1/1903 - 1988)

[Bufo Calvin @bufocalvin]

Happy bookish birthdays, 11 January, to: Diana Gabaldon (the Outlander series), Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), Mary Rodgers (Freaky Friday)... https://t.co/UBwX9mmAoI

[AJ Opperman @AJOpperman]

Die skrywer Alan Paton is op 11 Januarie 1903 in Pietermaritzburg gebore. Sy pa was ‘n Skotse immigrant en het hom aan letterkunde voorgestel en ‘n liefde vir die natuur by hom tuisgebring.
Paton is op 12 April 1988 in Durban aan keelkanker oorlede.

[Andromeda Mixed Media @alredered]

Andromeda Remembers Alan Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist, on his birthday.
https://t.co/IOtMDnZGyC
https://t.co/nxqv6l3PGe

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man."

[Jazz the Professor @Jazzieeiswhoiam]

#OTD Alan Paton (Jan 11, 1903 – Apr 12, 1988). South African writer, anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land. Paton was a white man in a country of oppressed Blacks who fought for their freedom and believed in their worth. It has been said that he was "the man who pulled up the barbed wire fence and planted geraniums" in South Africa. As a chronicler of his times, he brought America and the rest of the world face-to-face and heart-to-heart with the problem of race relations in South Africa.
#History
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[Mike McClure @MikeMcClur69771]

January 11, 1903: Alan Paton (GI 1903-1988) South African author/anti-apartheid activist Cry, The Beloved Country (1948).

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Hey, folks! If you love memoirs, write memoirs, or love Brooke Warner and Memoir Nation (the podcast for writers https://t.co/a4wyhQ0qNA), sign up for our Life Writing Panel, which will air on Memoir Nation in January or February.
Register https://t.co/a0IJ1UBGW6
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The Trust extends our heartfelt gratitude to Whitaker House, for our sensational first Royalty Statement, for the United States edition of Alan Paton's 'Instrument of Peace' (2025).

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where each's will to resistance against the power structures of their day, is pitted against the other, despite their strong familial bonds, their duty to each other, and their love.

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Debbie Go Home
A short story by Alan Paton

Published by: Spaced Ellipses
© Alan Paton Will Trust

Date of publication: 2025
3795 words
13 pages
Cover Design: Joshua Corban Publishing

R65
🔑: https://t.co/LWy3Dpoqng

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"Debbie Go Home" is a short story by Alan Paton that would make an excellent stage play for its well-wrought and intense interpersonal dynamics between family members, caught in a crux moment in their lives,