2nd Year 1st Semester

Biography Kamala Das, Malayalam pen name Madhavikutty, Muslim name Kamala Surayya, (born March 31, 1934, Thrissur, Malabar Coast [now in Kerala], British India—died May 31, 2009, Pune, India), Indian [...]

Biography Punyakante Wijenaike (born Colombo, 1933) is a Sri Lankan writer. She has been described as “one of the most underestimated fiction writers currently at work [...]

Biography Chinua Achebe, in full Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, (born November 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria—died March 21, 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.), Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental [...]

Biography Ken Saro-Wiwa, in full Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, (born Oct. 10, 1941, Bori, near Port Harcourt, Nigeria—died Nov. 10, 1995, Port Harcourt), Nigerian writer and [...]

The Waiting Earth The Author Punyakante Wijenaike is a Sri Lankan writer with distinguished qualities accustomed to herself alone. She had been writing [...]

Biography Nissim Ezekiel is an Indian poet who is famous for writing his poetry in English. He had a long career spanning more [...]

Things Fall Apart Setting The novel is set during the late 1800s – early 1900s in a small village called Umuofia situated in the [...]

Biography A K Ramanujan (1929 – 1993) A K Ramanujan is regarded as one of the gems of Indian English poets. His poets [...]

Biography Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government [...]

Divorcee About Author Ken Saro-Wiwa 1941–1995(Full name Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa) Nigerian novelist, essayist, diarist, poet, short story writer, playwright, television writer and producer. [...]