Adam Small

Adam Small
Born(1936-12-21)21 December 1936
Wellington, South Africa
Died25 June 2016(2016-06-25) (aged 79)
Cape Town, South Africa
OccupationWriter
Known forPoetry
Height1,905mm

Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation. Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English.