Poet, author Lionel Abrahams dies:
Lionel Abrahams, poet, author and unofficial literary executor of Herman Charles Bosman, died on Monday morning. [...]
Abrahams was born in Johannesburg in 1928. He was the author of six volumes of poetry, with another in preparation. He also wrote two novels, "The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan" and "The White Life of Felix Greenspan". [...]
Abrahams published the first volumes of black South African poets Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote. Mtshali's anthology "Sounds of a Cowhide Drum" appeared in 1971, at a time when few black authors were published in South Africa.
Abrahams encouraged a number of aspirant writers through a weekly creative writing class he conducted.
- The Write Stuff - bio and poems
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