South Africa the first well known novels written by a black author in an African language was Solomon Thekiso Plaatje's "Mhudi", written in 1930. During the 1950s, "Drum" magazine became a hotbed of political satire, fiction, and essays, giving a voice to urban black culture. Notable white South African authors include Alan Paton, who published the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" in 1948. Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1991. JM Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 2003. When awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy stated that Coetzee "in innumerable
Up the Country (novel) Up the Country (novel) Up the Country : A Tale of Early Australian Squattocracy (1928) is a novel by Australian writer Miles Franklin. Originally published as by "Brent of Bin Bin", this novel forms the first part of a trilogy, followed by "Ten Creeks Run" (1930) and "Cockatoos" (1955). The novel is set somewhere in the southeast of New South Wales, in Snowy River country, and follows the story of two families, the Pooles and the Mazeres, and their neighbors. In a major review of the novel in "The Brisbane Courier" literary critic Nettie Palmer noted that this book helped