A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times,
Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement
1865-1985
Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile
Biography
Malawi
Birth date: 1949-10-16
Birth location:
Luanshya,
Northern Rhodesia
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.
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