2nd Year

Biography John Pepper Clark, pseudonym J.P. Clark-Bekederemo, (born April 6, 1935, Kiagbodo, Nigeria—died October 13, 2020), the most lyrical of the Nigerian poets, whose poetry celebrates [...]

Biography Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur, (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta), Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]