Jared Angira
{{short description|Kenyan poet (born 1947)}}
Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".{{cite book |editor1-first=Albert S. |editor1-last=Gérard |editor1-link=Albert S. Gérard |title=European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6PrqVKaZtgC&pg=PA913 |year=1986 |publisher=John Benjamins |isbn=978-963-05-3834-3 |pages=887–921 |chapter=Kenya |first=Elisabeth |last=Knight}}
Life
Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya.{{cite journal |date=December 1978 |title=Biografski dodaci |trans-title=Biographic appendices |url=http://dhk.hr/casopis-republika/ |language=sh |journal=Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) |volume=XXXIV |issue=12 |pages=1424–1427 |place=Zagreb, SR Croatia }} He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi[http://afrilingual.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/no-coffin-no-grave-jared-angira/ Profile at African Poetry Review.] from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.{{cite book |last=Gikandi |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Gikandi |title=Encyclopedia of African Literature |publisher=Taylor & Francis | location=London |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-134-58223-5 |oclc=1062304793 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKmCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 |access-date=2018-12-04 |pages=32–33}}
Works
- Juices, London (1970)
- Silent Voices, London (1972)
- Soft Corals, London (1973)
- "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.
References
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Category:University of Nairobi alumni
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