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List Of Women Anthologists
This is a list of women anthologists with Wikipedia pages. A * Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023) * Irène Assiba d'Almeida (living) * Gloria Anzaldúa (1942 –2004) * Claire Armitstead (living) * Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960) B * Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) * Maria Banuș (1914–1999) * Amina Baraka (b. 1942) * Mildred Barya (living) * Patricia Bell-Scott (living) * Carla Blank (living) * Valerie Bloom (b. 1956) * Jenny Bornholdt (b. 1960) * Carole Boyce Davies (living) * Dionne Brand (b. 1953) * Rodica Bretin (b. 1958) * Carellin Brooks (living) * Jane Bryce (b. 1951) * Jean Buffong (born 1943) * Margaret Busby (b. 1944) * Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (b. 1972) C * Eliza Lo Chin (b. 1967) * Rohini Chowdhury (b. 1963) * Jennie Thornley Clarke (1860–1924) * Patricia Hill Collins (b. 1948) * Anne Compton (b. 1947) * Maryse Condé (1934–2024) * Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (1847–1938) * Jeni Couzyn (b. 1942) * Patricia Craig (b. 1940s) D * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 — 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was a Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, '' The Dilemma of a Ghost'', was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel ''Changes''. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers. Early life Christina Ama Ata Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 in Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, in the Central Region of Ghana. She was initially called Christiana Ama Aidoo. Some sources ( including Megan Behrent, Brown University, and ''Africa Who's Who'') have stated that she was born on 31 March. She had a twin brother, Kwame Ata. Aidoo was raised in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Bryce
Jane Bryce (born 1951) is a British writer, journalist, literary and cultural critic, as well as an academic. She was born and raised in Tanzania, has lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, and since 1992 has been based in Barbados. Her writing for a wide range of publications has focused on contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, postcolonial cinema and creative writing, and she is Professor Emerita of African Literature and Cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. She edited the anthology ''Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean'' (2006), and is the author of a 2007 collection of short fiction, entitled ''Chameleon''. Background Early years Jane Bryce was born in 1951 in Lindi, Tanzania, and grew up in Moshi. She was educated at schools in Tanzania until the age of 13, when she was sent to school in England. As she said in an interview in ''African Writing'', "I have a British passport, because when I was born in Tanzania, it was a British prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean D'Costa
Jean Constance D'Costa (born 13 January 1937) is a Jamaican children's novelist, linguist, and professor emeritus. Her novels have been praised for their use of both Jamaican Creole and Standard English. Early life and education Jean Constance Creary was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica, the youngest of three children to parents who were school teachers. Her father was also a Methodist minister. They moved to the capital, Kingston in 1944, and then to St. James and Trelawny. She attended rural elementary schools, and then St. Hilda's High School in Brown's Town, St. Ann from 1949 to 1954 on a government merit scholarship. She earned another scholarship to pursue a bachelor's degree in English literature and language at University College of the West Indies (now UWI, Mona) from 1955 to 1958, and another scholarship for a master's degree in literature at Oxford University. Career In 1962, after Oxford, she returned to teach Old English and linguistics at University College of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Craig (writer)
Patricia Craig (born 1940s) is a writer, anthologist and literary critic from Northern Ireland, living in Antrim, County Antrim. Personal life She was born in Belfast to Nora (née Brady) and Andy Craig and attended St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls before studying at the Belfast School of Art and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (where she obtained a Diploma in Art & Design, Hons.). She returned to Northern Ireland in 1999. She is married to the Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan. Career In the late 1960s, Craig was at Notre Dame Convent School in Battersea, working as an art mistress, but longed to have a literary career. Since then, she has written memoirs, edited several anthologies and written articles for newspapers. In London she began to collaborate with Mary Cadogan, editing several books on children's literature. Their first book, ''You’re a Brick, Angela!'', became a classic. On her return to Northern Ireland, she began to write books with an I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeni Couzyn
Jeni Couzyn (born 1942) is a feminist poet and anthologist of South African extraction who lives and works in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her best known collection is titled '' Life by Drowning: Selected Poems'' (1985), which includes an earlier sequence ''A Time to Be Born'' (1981) that chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter. Biography Couzyn was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Natal. She emigrated to Britain in 1966 and established herself as a freelance writer. She became a Canadian citizen in 1975 and the following year was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Since then she has divided her time between England, Canada, and South Africa. Work Poetry Couzyn's first collection was titled ''Flying'' (1970). Later collections include ''Christmas in Africa'' (1975), ''A Time to be Born'' (1981), ''Life by Drowning: Selected poems'' (1985), and ''That's It'' (1993).Stringer p. 145 ''A Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domitila García Doménico De Coronado
Domitila is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Domitila Chúngara, Bolivian labor leader and feminist *Domitila, Marchioness of Santos, Brazilian noblewoman *Domitila García de Coronado, Cuban writer *Domitila de Carvalho Domitila (Domitilla in the old Portuguese spelling) de Carvalho (1871–1966) was a Portuguese medical doctor, teacher, writer and politician. She was the first woman to attend the University of Coimbra in Portugal, from where she graduated in ..., one of first three women members of the Portuguese parliament See also * ''Domitila'' (1996), Nigerian film {{Given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon; 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel ''Ségou'' (1984–1985). Condé's writings explore the African diaspora that resulted from slavery and colonialism in the Caribbean. Her novels, written in French, have been translated into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. She won various awards, such as the Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme (1986), Prix de l'Académie française (1988), Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe (1997)"Author Profile: Maryse Condé" . ''World Literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Compton
Anne Compton (born 1947) is a Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist. Biography Compton was born and raised in the farming community of Bangor, Prince Edward Island. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Prince Edward Island, her Masters from York University and her PhD from the University of New Brunswick.https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/english/people/annecompton.html Anne Compton UNB Faculty Biography Until retiring to write full-time in 2012, Dr. Compton taught literature and creative writing for the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, where she also served as Writer-in-Residence and, for many years, the Director of the Lorenzo Reading Series. She serves on the New Brunswick Arts Board.UPEI |
Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association – the first African-American woman to hold this position. Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving race, gender, and social inequality within the African-American community. She gained national attention for her book '' Black Feminist Thought'', originally published in 1990.Collins, Patricia. 2000. ''Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment''. Routledge. Family background Patricia Hill Collins was born on May 1, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only child of two pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Thornley Clarke
Jennie Thornley Clarke (September 20, 1860 – December 27, 1924) was an American educator, writer, and anthologist. She was the author of ''Songs of the South. Choice Selections from Southern Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day''. Joel Chandler Harris, who furnished an introduction to the book, said that, as far as he knew, this volume was the first of American anthologies devoted wholly to verse produced by southern writers. Early life and education Jennie Thornley Clarke was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, September 20, 1860. She said she was a native Georgia although she was born among the first families of Vermont. Her father, John Archer Clarke, was a poet; he died in early manhood. Brought up in a library and carefully taught by her mother, Mary Ellis (West) Clarke, Jennie was twice graduated with the highest honors; first, by a female college in Georgia and afterwards (in 1889), by the University of Nashville. Career Immediately elected to the chair of Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohini Chowdhury
Rohini Chowdhury (born 1963) is a children's writer and literary translator. Her published writing for children is in both Hindi and English, and includes translations, novels, short stories, and non-fiction. Her children's books and short stories have been shortlisted for awards, including the Hindu Young World Goodbooks Non-fiction Award and the New Writer Prose and Poetry Competition, 2001, UK. As a literary translator, she works mainly in Hindi (pre-modern and modern) and English. She has translated the 17th century Braj Bhasha text, ''Ardhakathanak'', considered the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and English. Her most recent translation is that of Tulsidas's ''Ramcharitmanas'', which was published by Penguin India in December, 2019. A short extract from the first volume had earlier been published with the permission of the publisher in the journal '' Modern Poetry in Translation'', ''Songs of the Shattered Throat'', 2017, Number 1. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Lo Chin
Eliza Lo Chin (born 1967) is an American internist with an interest in women's health. She is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the executive director of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA). Chin was president of AMWA from 2010 to 2011. In 2002, she edited the anthology, ''This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine''. Early life and education Chin was born in 1967. She earned a B.A. with honors in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1993, she completed an internal medicine residency with the Primary Care Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Chin earned a M.P.H. at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Career In 1997, Chin was appointed assistant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She also served as assistant attending physician at NewYork-Presbyte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |