Lionel George Sheldon, poet

Born: 2 June 1927, Source: Bibliografie van afrikaanse boeke by Petrus Johannes Nienaber

Died:

Wrote Weeklaag van die wese; published in 1960.

In reference to Lionel Sheldon and others: "A cursory overview of black Afrikaans writing reveals that from the 1940s until the early 1990s black Afrikaans writers were mostly poets... dominating until the mid-seventies". (Source: Louise Viljoen, "Displacement in the literary texts of black Afrikaans writers in South Africa" (PDF), Stellenbosch University)

e-Family.co.za lists a Loinel George Sheldon, unmarried, having died 27 December 1981

Lionel Sheldon's 1960 poem "Rehabilitasie" was published in the 1988 collection SA in poesie.

However, there is 9 November 2007 legal notice for a Lionel George Sheldon and a Viola Caprice Sheldon - http://tinyurl.com/lq96ba

See also this 2004 Paarl Post article for information on Viola Sheldon - http://www.paarlpost.com/archive/160904/people.html