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Also Known As George Kofi Awoonor Williams
Born March 13, 1935 • Gold Coast
Died September 21, 2013 (aged 78) • Nairobi • Kenya
Notable Works “Rediscovery and Other Poems”
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George Woodcock
Canadian writer
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Jordan Kush Ngubane
South African writer
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
British author
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
Lawrence Durrell, 1968.
Lawrence Durrell
British author
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Peter Redgrove
English poet, novelist, and playwright
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
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Earle Birney
Canadian writer and educator
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Bryher
British author
William Kirby.
William Kirby
Canadian writer
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, and activist
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Ayi Kwei Armah
Ghanaian writer
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Efua Sutherland
Ghanaian author
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Frank Kobina Parkes
Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet
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Francis Selormey
Ghanaian author

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