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2 unusual facts about Lionel Abrahams


Portrait with Keys

"Memory takes root only half in the folds of the brain: half’s in the concrete streets we’ve lived along." – Lionel Abrahams, poet and author.

Staffrider

But the magazine's early flexibility ensured that the work of previously unpublished writers and artists appeared alongside that of many South African notables including Nadine Gordimer, Lionel Abrahams, Rose Zwi, and Mtutuzeli Matshoba.


Roy Blumenthal

With Graeme Friedman, he co-edited A Writer in Stone, the tribute to South African writer, Lionel Abrahams.


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Anne Kellas

This group gathered around Lionel Abrahams had included at various times the writers Anne Schuster, Sinclair Beilis, Basil Du Toit, Debbie Aarons, novelist, critic and editor Ivan Vladislavic, academic and publisher Shirley Pendlebury, Michael Gardiner, Francis Faller, and others.