Paton's passport was confiscated on his return from New York in 1960, where he had been presented with the annual Freedom Award.

Their life together is documented in Paton's book Kontakion for You Departed, published in 1969.

Interesting to note is that fewer than 1 % of ten thousand boys given home leave during Paton's years at Diepkloof ever broke their trust by failing to return.

The editor Maxwell Perkins, noted for editing novels of Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, would guide Paton's first novel through publication with Scribner's.

Paton's second and third novels, Too Late the Phalarope ( 1953 ) and Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful ( 1981 ), and his short stories, Tales From a Troubled Land ( 1961 ), all deal with the same racial themes that concerned the author in his first novel.

Paton wrote two autobiographies: Towards the Mountain deals with Paton's life leading up to and including the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country ( an event that changed the course of his life ) while Journey Continued takes its departure from that time onwards.

Two recent publications of Paton's work include travel writing -- The Lost City of the Kalahari ( 2006 ); and a new complete selection of his shorter writings -- The Hero of Currie Road.

Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country ( 1946 ) was another highly successful Perkins find.

" Robert Garland, writing in the Journal American, similarly commented that " the beauty and simplicity of Paton's book infrequently comes through.

* Theophilus Msimangu, a character in Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country.

On 1 December 1917 at Gonnelieu, France, when a unit on Captain Paton's left was driven back, thus leaving his flank in the air and his company practically surrounded, he walked up and down adjusting the line, within 50 yards of the enemy, under a withering fire.

The Umkomaas river valley is mentioned in an early chapter of Alan Paton's 1948 novel Cry, The Beloved Country.

It sold over 15 million copies around the world before Paton's death.

A judge ruled in his wife's favour and Mr. Paton's later request for a hearing before the European Court of Human Rights was also denied.

Paton's father, Yevhen Paton, was also famous for his works in electric welding.

The Continuing Church then said they would appeal Lady Paton's decision, but ultimately chose not to proceed.

In an October 1960 letter to his colleague Brunello Rondi, Fellini first outlined his film ideas about a man suffering creative block: " Well then-a guy ( a writer?

Although not published in Merlin, American writer Terry Southern, who lived in Paris from 1948 − 1952, became a close friend of both Trocchi and his colleague Richard Seaver, and the three later co-edited the anthology Writers In Revolt ( 1962 ).

At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

" He had enormous talent ", writes his colleague Ben Bova in the book Notes to a Science Fiction Writer, " and his first science fiction story ' Casey Agonistes ' immediately established him as a writer to be watched.

Despite such promising-sounding material, and the fact that Jenkins was a best-selling thriller writer in the Fleming mould, had been a friend and colleague of Fleming's and had apparently had his blessing and input for the project, Glidrose rejected Jenkins ' submitted manuscript.

Chuck Jones, Pepé's creator, wrote that Pepé was based ( loosely ) on the personality of his Termite Terrace colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled " ladies ' man " who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were requited.

' Purdy then noted the more ' lyrical ' name of ' McCovey Cove ' was suggested by his colleague Leonard Koppett, a writer for the Oakland Tribune.

He had kept working until just three weeks before his death, writing at that time an obituary along with New York Times colleague Charles McGrath of Canadian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow.

Susan Ferrier was the daughter of James Ferrier ( 1744 – 1829 ), writer to the signet and one of the principal clerks of the Court of Session, in which office he was the colleague of Sir Walter Scott, and his wife Helen ( 1741 – 1797 ), daughter of Robert Coutts, a farmer near Montrose.

It was established by Bill Finger's colleague and fellow writer Jerry Robinson.

He co-hosted the TV show " Enemigos Intimos " (" Intimate Enemies ") on Frecuencia Latina along with colleague writer Aldo Miyashiro from March 2008 to first-quarter 2010, before being released from his journalist duties in Frecuencia Latina, due to Ideological Issues with New Executive management, more specifically Chief Executive Javier Urrutia.

In 1929, she met the writer William Plomer CBE and through him, Laurens van der Post.

The writer and intellectual Sir Laurens van der Post was born in Philippolis.

In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

van Vogt, science fiction writer Paul Di Filippo said:

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert Graves ' Claudius story in his two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn.

* 1598 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman ( b. 1538 )

* 1947 – Henk van Woerden, Dutch painter and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1887 – John van Melle, South African writer ( d. 1953 )

* Karel van de Woestijne, writer ( 1878 – 1929 )

Karel van het Reve ( 19 May 1921, Amsterdam – 4 March 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.

The term was coined by the Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederik ( Willem ) van Eeden ( 1860 – 1932 ).

* 1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian ( b. 1921 )

* 1880 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-born American writer and novelist ( d. 1959 )

van der Heijden, Dutch writer

* April 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer ( d. 2000 )

* May 19 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer ( died 1999 )

** John van Melle, Dutch-born writer ( d. 1953 )

* Joost van den Vondel of the Netherlands ( 1587 – 1679 ), writer and playwright

* December 15 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman ( b. 1538 )

Soon after the anthem was finished it was said that either Philips van Marnix, a writer, statesman and former mayor of Antwerp, or Dirck Coornhert, a politician and theologian, wrote the lyrics.

* Theo van Doesburg, 1883 – 1931, painter, architect, writer.

* Robert van Gulik ( 1910 – 1967 ), orientalist, diplomat, and writer

L. Ron Hubbard is widely believed to have used the theory in his creation of Dianetics and later to have incorporated it into Scientology, and acknowledges this in several texts ; the first of these two movements in turn introduced general semantics to a wider audience in the early 1950s, including popular science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt, personal growth theorist Harvey Jackins and his movement Re-evaluation Counseling and movements like Gestalt therapy.

* The Dutch writer Simon Vestdijk's 1938 novel De nadagen van Pilatus ( The Last Days of Pilate ) presents an account of Pilate's life after the crucifixion.