Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols was born in 1950 in Georgetown and lived in a village on the Guyanese coast until the age of eight. A graduate in communication of the University of Guyana, she was a primary-school teacher from 1967 to 1970, then a journalist and an information-service employee, before settling in the United Kingdom in 1977. A poet, novelist and author for young readers, on British examination syllabuses, she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2021. She lives in Lewes with the poet John Agard.

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• PoetryI is a Long Memoried WomanGrace Nichols · 1983Literature