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Charlotte Brontë
She was an English novelist and poet. -
Apr 1, 1564
Shakespeare
Shakespeare was born in the United Kingdom -
Dec 24, 1579
Sonnets and tragedies
Among the most important works of Shakespeare we can found "Macbeth", "Othelo", "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Hamlet" -
Daniel Defoe
He was born in London -
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe was an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for being the author of Robinson Crusoe -
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Brontë -
Joseph Conrad
He was a Polish-British novelist -
Mansfield Brith
Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand. -
Jean Rhys
She was born in Dominica a Caribbean island. She spend part of her life in England. -
Heart of darkness
A novel about imperialism and racism. By Joseph Conrad -
1910-1911
As a result of her lonely period of six months in Germany Katherine wrote short stories which were published at that time. -
"The Woman at the Store"
Her impressions of a camp were encapsulated in this short story -
Mansfield moves to England
Katherine moved to England at the age of 19 and made her reputation as a writer for the work "Bliss" -
Mansfield Death
She died because of a disease in France. -
Derek Walcott
He was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia. -
Chinua Achebe
He was born in the Igbo town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. -
Walcott's Debut
At the age of 18 he makes his debut with "25 Poems" -
"Things Fall Apart"
In 1958, his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was published. It went on to sell more than 12 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. -
Tsitsi Dangarembga
She was born in Zimbabwe but most of her education was in England. -
1960-1966
Achebe wrote the novels No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964) and A Man of the People (1966), all of which address the issue of traditional ways of life coming into conflict with new, often colonial, points of view. -
In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1962
His breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962) a book typical of his early poetry in its celebration of the Caribbean landscape's natural beauty. -
Wide Sargasso Sea
A prequel to the novel Jane Eyre of Brontë. -
Citadel Press
In 1967, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, a renowned poet, co-founded a publishing company, the Citadel Press, which they intended to run as an outlet for a new kind of African-oriented children's books. -
Shae
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Nervous conditions
Written by Dangarembga -
Nobel Prize
Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment" -
The T. S. Eliot Prize
Walcott won the T. S. Eliot Prize for his work in "White Egrets" -
Chinua Achebe Death
He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston, Massachusetts. -
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Team
Abel López, Betty Sánchez, Fer Hernández and Lore Urbina
