MacNab, Roy

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Section: Poets in the News
Poet Name: MacNab, Roy
Given Name: Roy
Last Name: MacNab
Date of Birth: 17 September 1923
Biography: Roy Macnab was a South African poet, journalist, broadcaster, diplomat and author. He worked as a cultural attaché for the South African High Commission in London from 1955–59, a counselor for cultural and press affairs for the South African Embassy in Paris from 1959–67, and director of the South Africa Foundation in London from 1968–84. He published three collections of poetry.

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Education: Jesus College; Hilton College
News Items: A New Look in Writing
Works: Testament of a South African; The Man of Grass and Other Poems; Winged Quagga, with Reassembling World
Close Relationships: Lessing, Doris; Schreiner, Olive; Smit, Hettie; MacCarthy, Desmond; Brink, André Philippus; Bosman, Herman Charles; Louw, W. E. G.; van den Heever, C. M.; Jacobson, Dan; Millin, Sarah Gertrude; Abrahams, Peter; Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'; Woods, Donald James; Gordimer, Nadine; Smith, Pauline Janet; Schuitema, Barend; Morton, Do; FitzPatrick, James Percy; van Bruggen, Jochem; Breytenbach, Breyten; Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise; Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'; van den Heever, Toon; Blum, Peter; Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'; Marais, Eugène Nielen; Plomer, William; Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'; Butler, Guy; Pringle, Thomas; Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'; Madge, Charles Henry; Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'; Nortje, Arthur; Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'; Paton, Alan; Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus; Wright, David; Campbell, Roy; Rousseau, Ina; Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'; Krige, Uys; van Heerden, Ernst; Celliers, Jan; Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Place of Birth: South Africa, Durban
Spatial Coverage: Durban
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News