# Roy Blumenthal

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**Roy Blumenthal** (born in 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an active poet since the early 1990s.

He is the founder of Barefoot Press, which started out printing free [pamphlets](/source/Pamphlet). Five editions were published, with a print run of 20 000 each.

## Career

Roy Blumenthal co-edited with [Graeme Friedman](/source/Graeme_Friedman), *A Writer in Stone*, the tribute to South African writer, [Lionel Abrahams](/source/Lionel_Abrahams).

Blumenthal is also a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker, and visual artist.[1]

A one-time contributor to MoneywebLIFE,[2] Blumenthal is a social commentator and cultural agent who employs a combination of visual, text, and convergent mediums to make sharp and exacting comments about the South African socio-economic [milieu](/source/Social_environment).

Blumenthal makes his living as a visual facilitator (aka, sketchnoter, or graphic harvester), turning the material he hears in conferences, meetings, and workshops into pictures.

## References

1. ["Roy Blumenthal"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56788416@N00). *Flickr*. Retrieved 2018-09-12.

1. ["Enabling all Africans to invest in stock markets"](http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page93). *Moneyweb*. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2018-09-12.

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