Selected Works
- Cry, The Beloved Country, 1948 - film 1951, dir. by Zoltan Korda
- Lost in the Stars 1950 (with Maxwell Anderson - set to music by Kurt Weill)
- Too Late the Phalarope, 1953
- The Land and People of South Africa, 1955
- South Africa in Transition, 1956
- Debbie Go Home, 1960
- Tales from a Troubled Land, 1961
- Hofmeyr, 1964
- South African Tragedy, 1965
- Spono, 1965 (with Krishna Shah)
- The Long View, 1967
- Instrument of Thy Peace, 1968
- Kontakio For You Departed, 1969 (also: For You Departed)
- Case History of a Pinky, 1972
- Apartheid and the Archbishop: the Life and Times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town, 1973
- Knocking on the Door, 1975
- Towards the Mountain, 1980
- Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful, 1981
- Journey Continued: An Autobiography, 1988
- Save the Beloved Country, 1989
- The Hero of Currie Road: the complete short pieces, 2008
Cry, The Beloved Country has been filmed twice (in 1951 and 1995) and was the basis for the Broadway musical Lost in the Stars (adaptation by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill).
The Alan Paton Award for non-fiction is conferred annually in his honour.
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