| LC control no. | no 95021730 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9265.9.D39 |
| Personal name heading | Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- |
| Variant(s) | Dawes, Kwame, 1962- |
| See also | Employer: University of South Carolina http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60679 Employer: University of Nebraska--Lincoln http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60679 Graduate of: University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60808 Graduate of: University of New Brunswick http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60808 |
| Other standard no. | 355281 0000000073665848 9501797 65093267 Q6450075 E39PBJgCMQGw9x4RyFQmbRVt8C |
| Associated country | United States Jamaica |
| Associated place | Columbia (S.C.) |
| Located | Kingston (Jamaica) Lincoln (Neb.) |
| Birth date | 1962-07-28 |
| Place of birth | Accra (Ghana) |
| Affiliation | University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) University of South Carolina University of Nebraska--Lincoln Calabash International Literary Festival Academy of American Poets |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Novelists Writers English, Teachers of University and college faculty members College teachers Periodical editors Journalists |
| Found in | Progeny of air, 1994: t.p. (Kwame Dawes) p. 120 (Kwame Senu Neville Dawes; born in Ghana, 1962) NLC in OCLC, 4/13/95 (hdg.: Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- ; usage: Kwame Dawes) His Prophets, c1995: t.p. (Kwame Dawes) verso of p. 159 (b. 1962 in Ghana, teaches at the Univ. of South Carolina at Sumpter; critic, author, broadcaster and singer in Ujamaa, a reggae band) His New & selected poems, 1994-2002, 2003: t.p. (Kwame Dawes) p. 4 of cover (b. in Ghana; grew up in Jamaica; lives in South Carolina) Spearen, Charlene Monahan. A book of exquisite disasters, 2012: ECIP t.p. (foreword by Kwame Dawes) data view (b. July 28, 1962; U.S. resident) Fushsia, 2016: ECIP t.p. (Kwame Dawes) data view (PhD, University of New Brunswick; professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor of Prairie Schooner; author of thirteen books of poetry and many books of fiction, non-fiction and drama, including Back of Mount Peace (Peepal Tree, 2010) and Gomer's Song (Akashic Books, 2007)) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville; fiction writer, dramatist, poet, educator; born 28 July 1962 in Accra, Ghana; Dawes attended the University of the West Indies in Mona; he believed he'd be a lawyer or historian-until entering UWI; after graduating from UWI (1983) with a B.A. in English; and Ph.D. (1990); began teaching in the English department at the University of South Carolina in Sumter; in 1994, his debut poetry collection, Progeny of Air, won the United Kingdom's prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection; published more than a dozen poetry collections; in 2001, won the small-press-oriented Pushcart Prize for his oeuvre; he served as head of the MFA writing program in Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina, and in 1996 was named associate fellow at the University of Warwick's Center for Caribbean Studies; in 2001, he cofounded the Calabash International Literary Festival, an annual three-day event held in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica; in 2007, he received an Emmy for his journalistic work on the multimedia and multidiscipline website Live Hope Love, a project funded by the Pulitzer Center that explored the AIDS crisis in Jamaica) A new beginning, 2018: t.p. (Kwame Dawes) page 204 (born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica and has lived most of his adult life in the USA) Nebraska, 2019: title page (Kwame Dawes) page 4 of cover (born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he relocated to the United States and eventually found himself an American living in Lincoln, Nebraska; Chancellor's Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie schooner at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln; author of twenty-one books of poetry and author or editor of numerous other books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays; elected a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, and won the Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry in 2019) Wikipedia, September 28, 2023 (Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine; born in Ghana; in 1971 the family moved to Kingston, Jamaica; growing up in Jamaica, Kwame Dawes attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona, where he received a BA degree in 1983; in 1992 he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of New Brunswick; from 1992 to 2012, taught at the University of South Carolina (USC) as a Professor in English, Distinguished Poet in Residence, Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, and Director of the USC Arts Institute; currently a Chancellor's Professor of English and Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) South Carolina encyclopedia (Website), September 28, 2023: Dawes, Kwame (Kwame Senu Neville Dawes was born in Ghana on July 28, 1962; his Ghanaian mother; his father, a Jamaican-born teacher who moved to Ghana in the 1940s; in 1971 the Dawes family moved to Kingston, Jamaica; received his B.A. in English from the University of the West Indies at Mona in 1983 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of New Brunswick in 1992. From 1992 to 2012 he was professor of English and distinguished poet-in-residence at the University of South Carolina; in 2012 he joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska as the Glenna Luschel Professor of English and the editor of Prairie Schooner) <https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/dawes-kwame/> Ibeh, Chukwuebuka. Boubacar Boris Diop and Kwame Dawes are finalists for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, via Brittle paper website, posted June 22, 2021, viewed on September 28, 2023 (Ghanaian-American poet Kwame Dawes) Obi-Young, Otosirieze. Professor Kwame Dawes awarded $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize, alongside seven others, via Brittle paper website, posted March 14, 2019, viewed Sept. 28, 2023 (Kwame Dawes; Ghanaian-Jamaican-American poet; born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica) |
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