Sinclair Beiles

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. The family returned to live in Johannesburg when he was six years old. The couple lived together in Yeoville, then a bohemian neighbourhood of artists, filmmakers and writers.

He died in Johannesburg General Hospital on 3 November 2000 at the age of 70. He was buried at West Park Cemetery on 7 November.