Biography Derek Walcott, in full Derek Alton Walcott, (born January 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia—died March 17, 2017, Cap Estate), West Indian poet and playwright
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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
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The Waiting Earth The Author Punyakante Wijenaike is a Sri Lankan writer with distinguished qualities accustomed to herself alone. She had been writing
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Biography Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government
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