Gladys Thomas

(19*-) Poet and playwright. [Born and grew up in the Cape Flats, in Cape Town.?*] Her play Avalon Court: Dramatic Scenes on the Cape Flats won the 1990 Betrams V.O. Literary Award and was published by Skotaville Publishers in 1992. Her poetry published in Cry Rage! (with James Matthews – SPROCAS, 1972, banned by the Apartheid authorities ) and her children’s poetry in Spotty Dog (Skotaville, 1989). *

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