The snowmelt can result in an increased water flow down the Isar rivers during the spring meltdown. During the winter most of the precipitation in the Alps turns into snow. The drainage basin contains some 9,000 square kilometers (roughly 3,500 square miles). The Isar river drains a substantial part of the Alps and parts of the Karwendel mountains.Īpart from the larger tributaries Amper and Loisach many smaller rivers flow into the Isar. The river Isar north of Mittenwald, near Garmisch
IJssel (Netherlands known to Romans as Isala).Isar (Spanish town, in the province of Burgos).The name itself is mentioned for the first time in 763 as Isura. One theory is that the name Isar stems from *es or *is in the Indo-European languages, meaning "flowing water" and later turned into a word with a meaning narrowed to frozen water (hence English ice, German: Eis) in Proto-Germanic. It is Germany's second most important tributary of the Danube.
With 295 km length, it is among the longest rivers in Bavaria. The Isar river enters Germany near Mittenwald and flows through Bad Tölz, Munich, and Landshut before reaching the Danube near Deggendorf. Its source is in the Karwendel mountain range of the Alps. The Isar is a river in Austria, and Bavaria. On 23 August 2013, at the Aziz Hassim Literary Awards held in Durban, Rive and two other esteemed South African authors, Ronnie Govender and Don Mattera, were honoured for their contributions to the fight against apartheid through literature. Rive's last novel, Emergency Continued, was completed two weeks before his death. Rive also published an autobiography entitled Writing Black in 1981. Buckingham Palace District Six was published in 1986 and turned into a musical by the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Emergency (1964) was set against the Sharpeville massacre. He also wrote three novels that were published in his lifetime. "The Bench" takes the well known story of Rosa Parks and sets it in South Africa. His short story "The Bench", for which he won a prize, is still anthologised. He edited anthologies for Heinemann's African Writers Series: the short story anthology Quartet (1963) - containing stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh and Rive himself - and the prose anthology Modern African Prose (1964). His collection African Songs was published in 1963 by Seven Seas Books. Rive initially published his stories in South African magazines such as Drum and Fighting Talk. He was stabbed to death at his home in Cape Town in 1989, when he was 58 years old. He also delivered guest lectures at more than 50 universities on four continents.Ī firm believer in anti-racism, Rive decided to stay in his country with the hope of influencing its development there. He was a visiting professor at several overseas universities, including Harvard University in 1987. Rive was for many years Head of the English Department at Hewat College. His doctoral thesis on Olive Schreiner would be published posthumously, in 1996. He earned an MA degree (1966) from Columbia University in the United States, and a Ph.D.
In 1965 Rive was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. His first novel, Emergency was published in 1964. In 1963 he was given a scholarship organised by Es'kia Mphahlele, the editor of Drum magazine, in which Rive published some of his early writing. He acquired a BA degree from the University of Cape Town in 1962. He was a prominent sportsman (a South African hurdles champion while a student) and a school sports administrator. In 1951 he went to Hewat College of Education in Athlone, where he qualified as a teacher. Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School, both in District Six. Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid. His father was African, and his mother was Coloured. Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class Coloured residential area District Six of Cape Town. Richard Moore Rive (1 March 1931 – 4 June 1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town.
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