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Grace Nichols

Born

in Georgetown, Guyana

January 01, 1950

Genre

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Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950 and grew up in a small country village on the Guyanese coast. She moved to the city with her family when she was eight, an experience central to her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), set in 1960s Guyana in the middle of the country's struggle for independence.

She worked as a teacher and journalist and, as part of a Diploma in Communications at the University of Guyana, spent time in some of the most remote areas of Guyana, a period that influenced her writings and initiated a strong interest in Guyanese folk tales, Amerindian myths and the South American civilisations of the Aztec and Inca. She has lived in the UK since 1977.

Her first poetry collection, I is a Long-Memoried Wom ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,642 ratings · 206 reviews · 71 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fat Black Woman's Poems 3.90 avg rating — 742 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Is a Long Memoried Woman 4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whoa, Baby, Whoa! by Grace Nichols, Eleanor Taylor (Illustrator) 3.59 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems 4.05 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picasso, I Want My Face Back 3.99 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LAZY THOUGHTS OF LAZY WO 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passport to Here and There 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Insomnia Poems 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whole of a Morning Sky 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paint Me a Poem 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I have crossed an ocean
I have lost my tongue
from the root of the old one
a new one has sprung”
― Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems

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“ضوء الشمعة
ــــــــــ
ضوء الشمعة
دائماً يأتى ليلاً
تومض على السقف
بضوئها الضعيف

كطفلة أحدق بصعوبة
عبر الظلام
متذكرة القول الشعبى القديم
"ضوء الشمعة يعنى
أن الضوء الأقوى سيأتى
أن الضوء الأقوى سيحدث"

و لكننى لا أستطيع أن أستريح
فضوء الشمعة كان سحراً و خطراً
له وظيفة
أن يومض و يخبو بقوة
كالموت.”
― Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems

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“شعار المرأة السوداء البدينة على باب غرفة نومها" أن تموت ممتلئاً بالأمل/ أفضل من أن تعيش بيأسٍ هزيل.”
― Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems

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