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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015)

Author of Coming to Birth

14+ Works 94 Members 0 Reviews

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Includes the names: Macgoye, Macgoye Oludhe, Marjorie, Marjorie Macgoye Macgoye

Works by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Coming to Birth (1986) 46 copies

The Present Moment (Women Writing Africa) (1987) 25 copies

Chira (1997) 4 copies

Street Life (Secondary Readers Series, 8) (1987) 3 copies

A farm called Kishinev (2005) 3 copies

The black hand gang (2003) 3 copies

Growing up at Lina school (2002) 2 copies

Homing In (Sparrow Reader Series, 20) (1994) 2 copies

Murder in Majengo (New fiction from Africa series) (1972) 1 copy

Creative writing in prose (2009) 1 copy

The story of Kenya: A nation in the making (1986) 1 copy

Moral issues in Kenya: A personal view (1996) 1 copy

Song of Nyarloka and other poems (1977) 1 copy

Rebmann (2014) 1 copy

Associated Works

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 449 copies

Poems from East Africa (1971) — Contributor — 28 copies

The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry (1995) — Contributor — 22 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1928-10-21
Date of death: 2015-12-01
Gender: female
Nationality: UK (birth)
Kenya
Birthplace: Southampton, England, UK
Education: University of London (Royal Holloway College|English)
University of London (Birkbeck College MA in English|1953)
Organizations: Foyles bookshop, London

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Awards

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Dublin Literary Award

Chira (Longlist – 1999)

World Library by The Guardian

Coming to Birth (Kenya)

Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature

A farm called Kishinev (English Adult Fiction – 2007)

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Statistics

Works: 14
Also by: 3
Members: 94
Popularity: #199,202
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 24

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