Category Archives: Authors
Ben Okri 15 March
Adapted from Wikipedia Ben Okri OBE FRSL, is a Nigerian poet and novelist Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. He was born in Minna in the west of central Nigeria in […]
Keri Hulme – 9 March
Keri Hulme was born 9 March 194,7 in New Zealand. She writes novels, poetry and short stories. Her novel, The Bone People, won the Booker Prize in 1985. She was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand’s South Island. The daughter of a carpenter and a credit manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her […]
Khaled Hosseini – 4th March.
Khaled Hosseini was born March 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is a citizen of the United States, where he has lived since he was fifteen years old and is a novelist and physician. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, with the paperback spending 101 weeks on the The New […]
New Apple Apps and iBooks -Time Traveler Tours with Sarah Towle.
The latest author to come to talk to us at the WICE – Write In, is Sarah Towle. She is a career educator, language teacher, historian and widely travelled woman, as she says herself, “a writer turned accidental entrepreneur.” When she moved to Paris as a trailing spouse, her academic career effectively ended, but once […]
Flash Friday # 7 – Lou Beach.
This week I’m featuring Lou Beach, if you don’t know his work already, see also Flash Friday #3. He is a writer of short fiction and an artist. He is a master of the short genre, but art was his first creative profession. “Grabbing a ride with a couple of other nascent hippies, I fled […]
