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Richard Moore Rive (Cape Town, 1 March 1931 - 4 June 1989) was a South African writer. ==Biography== Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.〔Geoffrey V. Davis, (''Voices of Justice and Reason'' ), Editions Rodopi, 2003, pp. 95-100. ISBN 90-420-0826-1〕 His father was African, and his mother was Coloured.〔("Richard (Moore) Rive" ), ''Dictionary of Literary Biography''.〕 Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid. Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School,〔("Richard Rive" ), Blackpast.org, retrieved 13 August 2014〕 both in District Six, and then to Hewat College of Education in Athlone, where he qualified as a teacher. Later he acquired a BA degree from the University of Cape Town, followed by an MA degree from Columbia University in the United States, and a Doctorate from Oxford University. He was for many years the Head of the English Department at Hewat College. Rive was a visiting professor at several overseas universities, including Harvard University in 1987. He also delivered guest lectures at more than 50 universities on four continents. He was a prominent sportsman (a South African hurdles champion while a student) and a school sports administrator. In 1963 he was given a scholarship organised by the editor of ''Drum'' magazine, Es'kia Mphahlele.〔 In 1965 Rive was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. He wrote a doctoral thesis on Olive Schreiner, which was published posthumously, in 1996.〔Robert Rive, ''Olive Schreiner: Letters: 1871-1899'' (hardcover), 1996, ISBN 0864860641〕 Rive was a firm believer in anti-racism〔Robert Rive, ("Where the Rainbow Ends" ), accessed 8 August 2008.〕 and decided to stay in his country in the hope of influencing its development there. He initially published his stories in collections or in South African magazines such as ''Drum'' and ''Fighting Talk''. He edited anthologies for Heinemann's African Writers Series: the short story anthology ''Quartet'' (1963) - containing stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh and Rive himself - and the prose anthology ''Modern African Prose'' (1964). His short story "The Bench", for which he won a prize, is still anthologised. "The Bench" takes the well known story of Rosa Parks and sets it in South Africa. He also wrote three novels that were published in his lifetime. ''Emergency'' (1964) was set against the Sharpeville massacre. ''Buckingham Palace District Six'' was published in 1986 and turned into a musical by the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town.〔 Rive also published an autobiography entitled ''Writing Black'' in 1981.〔 Rive's last novel, ''Emergency Continued'', was completed two weeks before his death.〔 He was stabbed to death at his home in Cape Town in 1989, when he was aged 58.〔〔Stephen Gray, ("Richard Rive biography: Where's the roistering braggart?" ) (review of ''Richard Rive: A Partial Biography'', by Shaun Viljoen; Wits University Press), ''Mail & Guardian'', 4 October 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Rive」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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