the growing resistance to apartheid, notably the Black Consciousness Movement, his connection to these groups was indirect. Notable works La Guma's works include the following: A Walk in the Night and Other Stories (1962), Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari. Featuring: 1) "A Walk in the Night"; 2) "Tattoo Marks and Nails"; 3) "At the Portagee's"; 4) "The Gladiators"; 5) "Blankets"; 6) "A Matter of Taste"; 7) "The Lemon Orchard" And a Threefold Cord (1964), (East) Berlin, GDR: Seven Seas Publishers. Quartet: Four Voices from South Africa (1963), London: Heinemann. Stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Richard Rive, and Alf Wannenburgh. Featuring: 1) "Out of Darkness"; 2) "Slipper Satin"; 3) "A Glass of Wine"; 4) "Nocturne" by La Guma. The Stone-Country (1967), (East) Berlin, GDR: Seven Seas Publishers. In the Fog of the Seasons' End (1972), London: Heinemann. A Soviet Journey (1978), Moscow: Progress Publishers. Time of the Butcherbird (1979), London: Heinemann. References Further reading Kathleen M. Balutansky. The Novels of Alex La Guma: The Representation of a Political Conflict. Three Continents Press, 1990. Chandramohan, Balasubramanyam, A Study in Trans-Ethnicity in Modern South Africa: The Writings of Alex La Guma, 1925–1985. Lewiston, New York, and Lampeter, Wales: Mellen Research University Press, 1992. Roger Field. Alex La Guma: A Literary and Political Biography. Woodbridge, UK: James Currey, 2010. Ian Fullerton. Politics and the South African Novel in English, in Bold, Christine (ed.), Cencrastus No 3, Summer 1980, pp.22 & 23 Christopher J. Lee (ed.), A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition. Lexington Books, 2017. Tribute to Alex La Guma in Rixaka, cultural journal of ANC, No. 3/86. External links Alex La Guma biography from South African History Online "Language games, Alex La Guma's fiction, and the new post-apartheid reality for the South African writer" – analysis of La Guma's contributions against South African apartheid "Alex La Guma Gains Lotus Prize" – news article from 1971, with photograph 1924 births 1985 deaths Writers from Cape Town Cape Coloureds Members of the South African Communist Party Members of the African National Congress Anti-apartheid activists Marxist writers South African journalists South African male novelists People acquitted of treason South African prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of South Africa 20th-century South African novelists Alumni of Trafalgar High School (Cape Town) 20th-century journalists