Sinclair Beiles

Sinclair Beiles
Sinclair Beiles circa 1998 in Johannesburg
Born1930 (1930)
Died3 November 2000(2000-11-03) (aged 69–70)
OccupationPoet, writer
Literary movementBeat, postmodernism
Notable works‘’Ashes of Experience’’ (1969)
Notable awardsIngrid Jonker Prize

Sinclair Beiles (b. Kampala, Uganda, 1930–2000, Johannesburg) was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris. He developed along with William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin the cut-up technique of writing poetry and literature. He won the 1969 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry for his collection, Ashes of Experience.