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Ben Okri
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Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England. He was poetry editor for West Africa magazine between 1983 and 1986 and broadcast regularly for the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985. He was appointed Fellow Commoner...
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Marcie R. Rendon
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Marcie Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation. Oprah Magazine's 2020 list of 31 Native American Author's to read. 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. 50over50 MN AAARP & Pollen Award. Rendon's novel Girl Gone Missing, Cinco Puntos Press, the second Cash Blackbear novel was nominatee for Putnam's Son's Sue Grafton Memorial Award at the Edgars, 2020. Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) was the Pinckley Women's Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 Contemporary Novel category. Rendon has non-fiction children's books...
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