María Pilar Nsue Angüe Osa (1945 or 1950 – 18 January 2017) was a noted Equatoguinean writer and Minister of Education and Culture. Background and early (...)
Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon) 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas (...)
Octavio Paz Lozano[a] (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the (...)
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Barbara Chase-Riboud (born June 26, 1939) is an American visual artist and sculptor, bestselling novelist, and award-winning poet After becoming (...)
Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for Rolling Stone on the (...)
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker (...)
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Cut Not a Tree By Elizabeth Kamara, Freetown, Sierra Leone Cut not a tree, you know its worth Cut not a tree, it has a life To live and breathe (...)
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Again and again By Elizabeth Kamara, Freetown Again and again we mourn the spill of an angel’s blood Ransacked like a war-torn city her blood doubly (...)
