Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite was born in Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados on May 11th, 1930 and is the Poet. At the age of 89, Kamau Brathwaite biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born 11 May 1930) is a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.
Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite was the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry Born to Slow Horses.Brathwaite holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (1968) and was the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM).
He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983, and is a winner of the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Bussa Award, the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry, and the 1999 Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from the International Poetry Forum.Brathwaite is noted for his studies of Black cultural life both in Africa and throughout the African diasporas of the world in works such as Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica (1970); The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820 (1971); Contradictory Omens (1974); Afternoon of the Status Crow (1982); and History of the Voice (1984), the publication of which established him as the authority of note on nation language.Brathwaite often makes use of a combination of customized typefaces (some resembling dot matrix printing) and spelling, referred to as Sycorax video style.
Honours and awards
- 1970: Cholmondeley Award
- 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1983: Fulbright Fellowship
- 1987: Order of Barbados (CHB)
- 1994: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- 1999: Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from International Poetry Forum
- 2002: Honorary doctorate, University of Sussex
- 2006: Griffin Poetry Prize, International Winner
- 2006: Gold Musgrave Medal for Literature from the Institute of Jamaica
- 2007: President's Award, St. Martin Book Fair
- 2010: W. E. B. Du Bois Award
- 2011: Casa de las Americas Premio
- 2015: Robert Frost Medal from Poetry Society of America
- 2016: Elected an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- 2018: PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
- 2020: Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters