Dionne Brand
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Dionne Brand was born in 1953 in Guayguayare, Trinidad and was educated at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Brand was the founder and editor of Our Lives, Canada's first newspaper for black women. She has also worked on Fuse Magazine, The Harriet Tubman mostra altro Review, Canadian Women Studies, and Research for Feminist Research. She also belongs to several community organizations including the Immigrant Women's Center and the Caribbean Peoples' Development Agency. Brand's involvement in politics is prevalent in her books, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun, Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism and Primitive Offensive, and Land to Light On, for which she received a Governor General's Award. Brand has also directed Sister's in Struggle, Long Time Comin' and Older, Stronger, Wiser for the National Film Board of Canada. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Dionne Brand
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Opere correlate
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Collaboratore — 160 copie
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008) — Collaboratore — 50 copie
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1953-01-07
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Trinidad and Tobago (birth)
Canada - Luogo di nascita
- Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago
- Luogo di residenza
- Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- University of Toronto (BA|English & Philosophy)
University of Toronto (MA|Philosophy of Education) - Attività lavorative
- instructor
poet
writer
director - Organizzazioni
- University of Guelph
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (2006)
Poet Laureate of Toronto (2009, 3-year term)
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- Opere
- 32
- Opere correlate
- 18
- Utenti
- 1,306
- Popolarità
- #19,653
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 26
- ISBN
- 88
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 3