Английская Википедия:Amryl Johnson
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Amryl Johnson (6 April 1944 – 1 February 2001) was a writer born in Trinidad who lived most of her life in Britain.[1]
Life
Johnson was born in Tunapuna, Trinidad, and was brought up by her grandparents until the age of 11, when she moved to Britain to join her parents.[2][3] She attended secondary school in London and went on to study British, African and Caribbean literature at the University of Kent.[4] Much of her work concerned the diasporic nature of her life and the hostility she faced in Britain.[1] For a time, she taught at the University of Warwick but generally supported herself by writing and performing. During the late 1980s, she settled in Coventry.[1]
Sequins for a Ragged Hem (1988) narrates Johnson's second return tour to Trinidad as a spiritual "homecoming" made problematic, among other reasons, by the fact that the house where she was born had been demolished.[5]
Johnson's work was included in several anthologies, including News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British Poetry (1984), Let It Be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain (1987), Watchers & Seekers: Creative Writing by Black Women in Britain (1987), The New British Poetry (1988), Delighting the Heart (1989), Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women's Poetry (1990), Taking Reality by Surprise (1991), Daughters of Africa (1992) and OTHER: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999).
Selected works
- Shackles, poetry (1983)
- Long Road to Nowhere, poetry (Virago, 1985)[6]
- Sequins for a Ragged Hem, travel writing (Virago, 1988)[6]
- Blood and Wine, audio recording (Cofa Press, 1991)[6]
- Gorgons, poetry (Cofa Press, 1992)[6]
- Tread Softly in Paradise (Cofa Press)[6]
- Calling, poetry (2000)[6]
References
External links
- "Amryl Johnson" at Spoken Word Archive
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Шаблон:Cite news
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- ↑ Busby, Margaret, "Amryl Johnson", Daughters of Africa, London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, p. 587.
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- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 6,5 Шаблон:Cite news
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