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Stephen Gray

Died in 2020

Stephen Gray was born in Cape Town on 30 November 1941. Educated at St Andrew's College in Grahamstown and at the University of Cape Town, he then studied at Cambridge, where he edited the magazine Granta, and afterwards at the University of Iowa's writing workshop. After teaching at Aix-Marseille, he joined the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, where he was professor of English until the early 1990s. An anthologist and historian of Southern African literature, he received the English Academy's gold medal in 1993. He died in Johannesburg on 22 October 2020.

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