James Matthews (writer)
James Matthews is a South African poet, writer and publisher.
He was detained by the apartheid government in 1976, and was denied a passport for 23 years.
In 1987, he was elected as patron of the Congress of South African Writers, and he established the first black-founded art gallery in South Africa, and the first black-owned publishing house. In 2000, he founded the publishing house Realities.
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