Grace Nichols

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Grace Nichols


Born
in Georgetown, Guyana
January 01, 1950

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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
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The Fat Black Woman's Poems

3.90 avg rating — 742 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions
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I Is a Long Memoried Woman

4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions
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Whoa, Baby, Whoa!

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I Have Crossed an Ocean: Se...

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Picasso, I Want My Face Back

3.99 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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LAZY THOUGHTS OF LAZY WO

3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1989
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Passport to Here and There

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The Insomnia Poems

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Whole of a Morning Sky

3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Paint Me a Poem

3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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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

“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

“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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