In 1953 he founded his country's Liberal Party, which was banned in 1968 by the Prohibition of Political Interference Bill.  
In 1953 he founded his country's Liberal Party, which was banned in 1968 by the Prohibition of Political Interference Bill.  His lesser-known works include a study of his friends Jan Hofmeyr and the archbishop Geoffery Clayton, For Your Departed. He published a book of short stories, Tales from a Troubled Land, and a novel containing real life characters like Albert Lutuli entitled Ah, But your Land if Beautiful. However, neither those works, nor his second novel about Peter van Vlaanderen, Too Late the Phalarope, could match the popularity of his first work. FTP, name this South African novelist, who wrote of the preacher Stephen Kumalo in Cry, the Beloved Country.
In 1953 he founded his country's Liberal Party, which was banned in 1968 by the Prohibition of Political Interference Bill.  
Alan Paton