Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013
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Variants
- Awoonor-Williams, George, 1935-2013
- Williams, George Awoonor-, 1935-2013
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1935-03-13
Death Date
- 2013-09-21
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Ghana
- Organization: GhanaFilms
- Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Organization: University of Texas at Austin
- Organization: University of Cape Coast
Birth Place
- Wheta (Ghana)
Associated Locale
- Nairobi (Kenya)
Associated Language
- English
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Author
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Sources
- found: His Rediscovery, and other poems, c1964.
- found: His Ghana, 1990:t.p. (Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 23, 2013(Kofi Awoonor; b. Mar. 13, 1935, Wheta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]; d. Sept. 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya; Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization; started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams)
- found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed December 6, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Awoonor, Kofi; George Awoonor-Williams; poet, fiction writer; born 1935 in Wheta, Ghana; BA degree in English, University of Ghana at Legon (1960); PhD degree in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972); was a managing editor of the Ghana Film Corporation; taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Cape Coast (1975); his opposition to the military government led to his arrest and imprisonment; he was pardoned and released (1976); was Ghana's ambassador to the United Nations in the early 1990s; established himself as one of the most significant contemporary African writers, primarily through his poetry; died in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya)
LC Classification
- PR9379.9.A9
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Change Notes
- 1980-07-17: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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