Gladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas (1934-2022) is a South African poet and playwright. Thomas was one of the first black South African women poets to be published. Her co-authored debut anthology, Cry Rage, was the first book of poetry to be banned in South Africa. On April 24, 2007, Thomas was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) for "Outstanding contribution to poetry and short stories through which she exposed the political injustices and human suffering of the apartheid regime and for raising international consciousness about the ravages of apartheid." Works Cry Rage!, 1972 Exile Within, 1986 Spotty Dog and Other Stories: Stories for and of South African Township Children, c.1983 Avalon Court (Vignettes of Life of the Coloured People on the Cape Flats of Cape Town) References 1934 births Living people South African poets South African dramatists and playwrights South African women dramatists and playwrights South African children's writers South African women children's writers 20th-century South African women writers 21st-century South African women writers South African women poets