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Okara, Gabriel, 1921-2019

LC control no.n 90659986
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LC classificationPR9387.9.O375
Personal name headingOkara, Gabriel, 1921-2019
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Associated countryNigeria
Birth date1921-04-21
Death date2019-03-25
Place of birthBayelsa State (Nigeria)
Field of activityFiction Poetry Modernism (Literature)
Profession or occupationNovelists, Nigerian Poets, Nigerian
Found innuc90-8884: His La voix, 1985 (hdg. on CLU rept.: Okara, Gabriel, 1921- ; usage: Gabriel Okara)
LC data base, 06-21-90 (hdg.: Okara, Gabriel, 1921- )
Gabriel Okara, 2007: t.p. (Gabriel Okara) p. 2 (Gabriel Imomotimí Gbaíngbaín Okara, b. in Bayelsa State on April 21, 1921)
Wikipedia, viewed March 18, 2020: Gabriel Okara page (Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921-25 March 2019), Nigerian poet and novelist; born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria; first Modernist poet of Anglophone Africa; best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry)
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