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Stephen Gray edited a series of South African works for Penguin, bringing back into print several almost forgotten classics. (Paul Botes)
ATHOL FUGARD

Obituary: Literary allrounder Stephen Gray was a scholar, critic, novelist and poet

Stephen Gray made an immense, long contribution to the South African literary landscape across many genres, but it was poetry that he described as ‘the main activity of my life’

  • Shaun De Waal
4 min read
BOOK

Satirical sympathies

Jane Riosenthal reviews The Keep and Remembering Herman Charles Bosman — Herman Charles Recollected .

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
JEFF PEIRES

A charge disputed

Zakes Mda rebuts Stephen Gray’s reports of plagiarism.

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read
LITERATURE

A charge disputed

After Stephen Gray savaged me in the pages of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> a few weeks ago, I immediately responded, thanks to the new age of blogs.

  • Staff Reporter
11 min read
ANTHONY QUINN

Theatre icon Patrick Mynhardt dies

South African theatre icon Patrick Mynhardt, famous for portraying the Herman Charles Bosman character Oom Schalk Lourens on stage, has died at the age of 75, it was announced on…

  • Riaan Wolmarans
  • Sapa Afp
3 min read