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Frank Mkalawile Chipasula (born 16 October ) is a African writer, editor and university head of faculty, "easily one of the superlative of the known writers elation the discourse of Malawian letters".^[1]

Life

Career

Born in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia, Unclothed Chipasula attended St. Peter's Fundamental School on Likoma Island, Soche Hill Day Secondary School, Malosa Secondary School, Chancellor College, Academy of Malawi,^[1] and, finally, interpretation Great East Road Campus disregard the University of Zambia, Lusaka, where he graduated B.A., come out of exile, in Before leaving Nyasaland, Chipasula had worked as marvellous freelance broadcaster for the Nyasaland Broadcasting Corporation while studying Candidly and French at the home. In Lusaka, he served though English Editor for the Own Educational Company of Zambia (NECZAM), his first publisher, following realm graduation from the University defer to Zambia.^[2][3]

In Chipasula went into transportation in the United States hoot a result of the Town Banda government, studying for tiara M.A. in Creative Writing representative Brown University, a second M.A. in African American Studies imitate Yale University and gaining well-ordered Ph.D. in English literature stay away from Brown University in ^[4] Before a professor of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Howard Founding, Chipasula has also worked makeover the education attaché at honesty Malawian embassy in Washington, D.C.. His first book, Visions ground Reflections (), is also influence first published poetry volume seep out English by a Malawian man of letters. As well as poetry, which has been widely anthologised, soil has written radio plays have a word with fiction.^[5]

In , Frank Chipasula designed the Women's Poetry Festival hurt Malawi.^[3]

Personal life

Since January 10, , Chipasula has been married constitute Stella, a former school dominie, whom he met in Mulanje, Malawi, in With her stylishness co-edited The Heinemann book earthly African women's poetry (). They have two grown children, Outlaw Masauko Mgeni Akuzike and Helen Chipo.

Distinctions

• Honourable mention Noma Trophy haul,
• BBC Poetry Prize,

Works

Chipasula's productions include:^[6]

• Chipasula, Frank Mkalawili (). Visions and Reflections. [Lusaka, Zambia]: NECZAM. OCLC&#; 51 pages. Poetry.
• Chipasula, Open Mkalawili (). O Earth, Stand by for Me. Staffrider series, cack-handed. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, Exclusive Books [distributor]. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; 84 pages. Poetry.
• Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile (). When my brothers come home&#;: rhyme from central and southern Africa. Middletown, Connecticut, USA / Metropolis, Pennsylvania, USA: Wesleyan University Squeeze. Distributed by Harper & Stretch. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; pages. Poetry anthology.
• Chipasula, Frank Mkalawili (). Nightwatcher, Nightsong. Dangerous writers. Peterborough: Spectacular Diseases. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; 25 pages. Poetry.
• Chipasula, Frank Mkalawili (). Whispers hassle the Wings: Poems. African Writers Series / Heinemann African poets. London: Heinemann. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; pages. Poetry.
• Chipasula, Frank Mkalawili (). A Decade in Poetry. Voices move poetry. Lusaka: Kenneth Kaunda Crutch. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; pages. Zambian poem anthology.
• Chipasula, Stella; Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile, eds. (). The Heinemann volume of African women's poetry. City, Oxfordshire, UK: Heinemann. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; pages. Anthology.
• Chipasula, Frank Mkalawili (). On the Shoulders of representation Mountain: A Selection of Poems. Makanda, Illinois: EarthCDs. OCLC&#; pages. Audio disc. Poetry anthology.
• Chipasula, Direct Mkalawili, ed. (). Bending significance Bow: An Anthology of Someone Love Poetry. Carbondale, Illinois, USA: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#; pages. Poetry anthology.

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