Lionel Abrahams

Biography

Lionel Abrahams was born in 1928 in Johannesburg, South Africa. A poet, novelist and essayist, Abrahams is most well known for his poetry. He published five collections of poems, including Journal of a New Man (1984), The Writer in Sand (1988), A Dead Tree Full of Live Birds (1988), and Chaos Theory of the Heart (2005). Abrahams attended Damelin College and Wits University, both located in South Africa. In 2004, he died in Johannesburg.

Birth Date

1928-01-01

Death Date

2004-01-01

Afrikaner

Country of Nationality

South Africa

Hope Home, Damelin College, Wits University

Poetry Collections

Thresholds of Tolerance (1975);
Journal of a New Man (1984);
The Writer in the Sand (1988);
A Dead Tree Full of Live Birds (1995);
The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan (1977);
The White Life of Felix Greenspan (2002).

Sources

https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/5380/Lionel-Abrahams/en/tile, The Independent " Lionel Abrahams "Mishievous Guru of South African Letters.", Wikipedia,