In the year following Lionel Abrahams’ death, his wife Jane Fox wrote him a series of letters. ‘Letters to Lionel’ is a piercingly honest book about the ‘unbiddable nature of a love’ that continues after death.
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The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) conferred honorary doctorates (honoris causa) in Literature on author Dr Abraham de Vries, playwright Athol Fugard, and public intellectual Aziz Pahad. The virtual autumn graduation ceremony took place on 30 April 2021.
UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe said he is elated that the Faculty is able to honour some of the country’s most creative and influential public intellectuals. “All the individuals who are having honorary degrees conferred on them espouse values that we hold dear as an institution; chief among those is employing your skills for the betterment and development of society. Congratulations to them all, and a hearty welcome to the UP family.”