Roy Blumenthal (born in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an active poet since the early 1990s.

Roy Blumenthal
Born1968
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
CitizenshipSouth African
Occupations
  • Poet
  • screenwriter
  • novelist
  • filmmaker
  • visual artist
Years active1994 – present

He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free pamphlets. Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 each.

Career edit

Roy Blumenthal co-edited with Graeme Friedman, A Writer in Stone, the tribute to South African writer, Lionel Abrahams.

Blumenthal is also a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist.[1]

A one-time contributor to MoneywebLIFE,[2] 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 milieu.

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 edit

  1. ^ "Roy Blumenthal". Flickr. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Enabling all Africans to invest in stock markets". Moneyweb. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2018.