Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (born 1928) is an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet.^[1]

Biography

Macgoye was born in 1928 in Southampton, England.^[1] She moved to Kenya in 1954 and married a Kenyan man in 1960.^[1] In 1971 an anthology entitled Poems from East Africa which included the acclaimed poem "A Freedom Song".^[1] Her 1986 novel Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize^[1] and has been used as a set book in Kenyan high schools.^{[citation needed]} She has been called the "mother of Kenyan literature".^[1][2]

Works

• 1972: Murder in Majengo
• 1977: Song of Nyarloka and Other Poems
• 1986: Coming to Birth
• 1987: Street Life
• 1987: The Present Moment
• 1994: Homing In
• 1997: Chira
• 2005: A Farm Called Kishinev (winner: Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Encyclopedia of African literature. London: Routledge. pp. 135. ISBN 0415230195. 
2. ^ "Coming to Birth". The Feminist Press. http://www.feministpress.org/books/marjorie-oludhe-macgoye/coming-birth. Retrieved 2010-01-10. 

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Name	Macgoye, Marjorie
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Short description	Novelist, essayist and poet
Date of birth	1928
Place of birth	Southampton, England
Date of death
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