Peter Abrahams

1919 - 2017

Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Native language: English

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Occupation: writer, journalist, editor-in-chief, poet, opinion journalist, editing staff

Award received: Gold Musgrave Medal, Order of Jamaica

Position held: editor-in-chief

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Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder. Source: Wikipedia (en)