Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013

LC control no.	n 50035144
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9379.9.A9
Personal name heading	Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Awoonor-Williams, George, 1935-2013 Williams, George Awoonor-, 1935-2013
Associated country	Ghana
Birth date	1935-03-13
Death date	2013-09-21
Place of birth	Wheta (Ghana)
Place of death	Nairobi (Kenya)
Affiliation	University of Ghana GhanaFilms State University of New York at Stony Brook University of Texas at Austin University of Cape Coast
Profession or occupation	Author Poets Novelists Ambassadors
Found in	His Rediscovery, and other poems, c1964. His Ghana, 1990: t.p. (Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor) Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 23, 2013 (Kofi Awoonor; b. Mar. 13, 1935, Wheta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]; d. Sept. 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya; Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization; started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed December 6, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Awoonor, Kofi; George Awoonor-Williams; poet, fiction writer; born 1935 in Wheta, Ghana; BA degree in English, University of Ghana at Legon (1960); PhD degree in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1972); was a managing editor of the Ghana Film Corporation; taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Cape Coast (1975); his opposition to the military government led to his arrest and imprisonment; he was pardoned and released (1976); was Ghana's ambassador to the United Nations in the early 1990s; established himself as one of the most significant contemporary African writers, primarily through his poetry; died in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya)
Associated language	eng