Roy Blumenthal (born in 1968 in

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

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) has been an active poet since the early 1990s. He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free

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. Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 each.

Career

Roy Blumenthal co-edited with

Graeme Friedman Graeme Friedman is a clinical psychologist and an award-winning writer whose short stories have appeared in anthologies published internationally. His book ''The Fossil Artist'' (Jacana, 2010), a novel about crime, authenticity, what it means to be ...

, ''A Writer in Stone'', the tribute to South African writer,

Lionel Abrahams Lionel Abrahams (11 April 1928 – 31 May 2004) was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg, where he lived his entire life. He was born with cerebral palsy and had to use a wheelchai ...

. Blumenthal is also a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist. A one-time contributor to MoneywebLIFE, Blumenthal is a social commentator and cultural agent who employs a combination of visual, text, and convergent mediums to make sharp and exacting comments about the South African socio-economic

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. Blumenthal makes his living as a visual facilitator (aka, sketchnoter, or graphic harvester), turning the material he hears in conferences, meetings, and workshops into pictures.

References

1968 births Living people South African male poets South African film directors South African artists South African screenwriters People from Johannesburg African poets {{SouthAfrica-poet-stub