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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
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Kenya
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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (born 1928) is an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet.
Born Marjorie King in 1928 in Southampton, England, Marjorie travelled to Kenya to work as a missionary in 1954. She worked at the S.J. Moore Bookshop on Government Road, now Moi Avenue in Nairobi, for some years. There she organised readings which were attended by, among others, Okot P’Bitek, the author of Song of Lawino, and Jonathan Kariara, a Kenyan poet. She met Macgoye, a medical doctor, and the two were married in 1960. In 1971, an anthology entitled Poems from East Africa included the acclaimed poem « A Freedom Song ». Her 1986 novel Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize and has been used as a set book in Kenyan high schools.She has been called the « mother of Kenyan literature ».
Bibliography:
– 1972: Murder in Majengo
– 1977: Song of Nyarloka and Other Poems
– 1986: Coming to Birth
– 1987: Street Life
– 1987: The Present Moment
– 1994: Homing In
– 1997: Chira
– 2005: A Farm Called Kishinev (winner: Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature)
– 2009: The Composition of Poetry
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Born Marjorie King in 1928 in Southampton, England, Marjorie travelled to Kenya to work as a missionary in 1954. She worked at the S.J. Moore Bookshop on Government Road, now Moi Avenue in Nairobi, for some years. There she organised readings which were attended by, among others, Okot P’Bitek, the author of Song of Lawino, and Jonathan Kariara, a Kenyan poet. She met Macgoye, a medical doctor, and the two were married in 1960. In 1971, an anthology entitled Poems from East Africa included the acclaimed poem « A Freedom Song ». Her 1986 novel Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize and has been used as a set book in Kenyan high schools.She has been called the « mother of Kenyan literature ».
Bibliography:
– 1972: Murder in Majengo
– 1977: Song of Nyarloka and Other Poems
– 1986: Coming to Birth
– 1987: Street Life
– 1987: The Present Moment
– 1994: Homing In
– 1997: Chira
– 2005: A Farm Called Kishinev (winner: Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature)
– 2009: The Composition of Poetry
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Homing InRomanMarjorie Oludhe Macgoye, the well-known Kenyan writer, is established as an important African woman’s voice. Her novel explores further aspects of the making of modern Kenya. Two women, one white and one black,…Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que poète -
A Farm Called KishinevRomanIn 1903, the British offered Uasin Gishu as a sanctuary and national home for Jews escaping persecution in Eastern Europe. But in the event, this was never put into effect; and instead of refugees, Afrikaner an…Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne -
Street LifeRomanThe second novel from the winner of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction with her first novel, Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. The life and times of the desolate in Kenyan society, striving for survival in a callous world. …Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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