Frank Mkalawile Chipasula

Biography

Frank Chipasula, born in 1949, was the first Malawian writer to have a poetry book published in English ("Visions and Reflections," 1972). In 1978 Chipasula went into exile and moved to the United States, where he would receive a PhD from Brown University in 1987 and work as a professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Southern Illinois University.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/frank-chipasula

Birth Date

1949-10-16

Place of Birth

Country of Nationality

Malawi

University of Zambia , Yale University , Brown Univeristy