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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Liyong, Taban Lo
Biography
South Sudan
Birth date: 1939-01-01
Birth location:
Gulu,
Uganda
Taban Lo Liyong, born in 1939, is a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic from South Sudan. He was the first African to graduate from the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop. Liyong has had published over twenty books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taban_Lo_Liyong
Education
- Howard University
- University of Iowa
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- Ballads of Underdevelopment: poems and thoughts (1976) (Work Author)
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- Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree (1997) (Work Author)
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