Grace Nichols

GN is a poet of stature, an anthologist, and a prolific and successful writer for children: an important element in the reading experience of many British children of Caribbean descent. She has also published a novel. Her work is noted for its political and social perspectives, reflecting her feminism and commitment to women's and children's issues.

Milestones

18 January 1950

GN was born in Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana).
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research.
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1983

GN published an ambitious poetic cycle, i is a long memoried woman, chronicling the lives of nameless black women survivors of the Middle Passage carried as slaves from Africa to the New World and the Caribbean.
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research.
236

26 May 2010

GN selected from nearly twenty-five years of writing a volume of her poems entitled I Have Crossed an Ocean.
Bloodaxe Books. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/.

Biography

18 January 1950

GN was born in Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana).
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research.
235
She was the fifth of seven children.
Sander, Reinhard, and Bernth Lindfors, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 157. Gale Research.
235

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