Paul Breman (

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, 19 July 1931 –

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, 29 October 2008) was a

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writer, bookseller and publisher.

Career

In the late 1950s Breman edited two volumes of African-American poetry, together with Rosey E. Pool, that were both published in the Netherlands. He moved in 1958 to London, where he found work as a bookseller, going on to set up an antiquarian bookshop of note with

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's ''A Ballad of Remembrance'' and his own anthology ''Sixes and Sevens''. By 1972, he had published 27 titles in the Heritage series. Some of the authors later became famous, such as

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and

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. This series, run by a Dutchman in

, became one of the most important publishing outlets for African-American poetry.Lauri Ramey, ''The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975. A Research Compendium'' (Ashgate, 2008), "The Heritage Series: An Introduction", pp. 1–17:1.

Bibliography (selection)

* Rosey E. Pool and Paul Breman (eds), ''Ik zag hoe zwart ik was. Poëzie van Noordamerikaanse negers. Een tweetalige bloemlezing van Rosey E. Pool en Paul Breman'' (Den Haag, Bert Bakker / Daamen N.V., 1958) * Rosey E. Pool and Paul Breman, ''Black All Day. American Negro Poetry'' (Amsterdam, Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, 1960)

References

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