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Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara (* 24. April 1921 in , Nigerdelta; † 25. März 2019 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa) war ein nigerianischer Schriftsteller. Er wurde vor allem durch sein dichterisches Werk bekannt, hat aber auch mehrere Romane und Kinderbücher geschrieben. 1979 wurde ihm der verliehen. (de) Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery, and he has been called "the Nigerian Negritudist". According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems, "It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun." (en) Gabriel Okara, de son nom complet Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara, est un poète et romancier nigérian né le 24 avril 1921 à Bumoundi à Yenagoa et mort le 25 mars 2019. (fr) Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara (Bumoundi (Bayelsa), 24 de abril de 1921 — 25 de março de 2019) foi um escritor nigeriano. Primeiro poeta modernista da África anglófona, ele é mais conhecido por seu romance experimental inicial, The Voice (1964), e sua poesia premiada, publicada em The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) e The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). Tanto em seus poemas quanto em sua prosa, Okara baseou-se no pensamento, religião, folclore e imagens africanas. Foi chamado de the nigerian negritudist. De acordo com Brenda Marie Osbey, editora de Collected Poems, "é com a publicação do primeiro poema de Gabriel Okara que se pode dizer que a literatura nigeriana em inglês e a moderna poesia africana nesta língua realmente começaram". (pt) |
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Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara (* 24. April 1921 in , Nigerdelta; † 25. März 2019 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa) war ein nigerianischer Schriftsteller. Er wurde vor allem durch sein dichterisches Werk bekannt, hat aber auch mehrere Romane und Kinderbücher geschrieben. 1979 wurde ihm der verliehen. (de) Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (24 April 1921 – 25 March 2019) was a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The first modernist poet of Anglophone Africa, he is best known for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964), and his award-winning poetry, published in The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) and The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). In both his poems and his prose, Okara drew on African thought, religion, folklore and imagery, and he has been called "the Nigerian Negritudist". According to Brenda Marie Osbey, editor of his Collected Poems, "It is with publication of Gabriel Okara's first poem that Nigerian literature in English and modern African poetry in this language can be said truly to have begun." (en) Gabriel Okara, de son nom complet Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara, est un poète et romancier nigérian né le 24 avril 1921 à Bumoundi à Yenagoa et mort le 25 mars 2019. (fr) Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara (Bumoundi (Bayelsa), 24 de abril de 1921 — 25 de março de 2019) foi um escritor nigeriano. Primeiro poeta modernista da África anglófona, ele é mais conhecido por seu romance experimental inicial, The Voice (1964), e sua poesia premiada, publicada em The Fisherman's Invocation (1978) e The Dreamer, His Vision (2005). (pt) |
