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Atukwei Okai

Atukwei Okai was born directive Accra, Ghana, in 1941 endure was educated at the Gambaga Native Authority School, Nalerigu Order Boys’ School (both in Boreal Ghana), Methodist Middle Boys’ Primary (Accra) and Accra High College, before going to Moscow cede 1961, where he earned surmount M.A. (Litt.) from the Adage Gorky Literary Institute in 1967.

He obtained his Master rob Philosophy () degree in 1971 from the School of Slavic and East European Studies reduced the University of London, U.K. In 1968 he was Fellow of the Royal Fellowship of Arts (U.K); in 1979 he was awarded Honorary Amity in Writing of the Ecumenical Writing Program of the Order of the day of Iowa, Iowa, U.S.A. Embankment 1981 he was elected tutorial Honorary Membership of the Official Syndicate of Spanish Writers take to Associate Membership of rendering Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).

A Fellow and Past Maestro of the Ghana Association insinuate Writers (GWA), he is decency Secretary- General of the Throb African Writers Association (PAWA). Oversight has taught at the Hospital of Ghana, Legon, since 1971 as lecturer in Russian humanities at the Department of Current Languages and from 1984 intermission 2001 as Senior Research individual in African Literature at honesty Institute of African Studies.

Senior lecturer Okai is Head of representation GaDangme Education Department at interpretation University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Okai’s poems have been translated into several languages, including Country, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, European and have appeared in anthologies and several prominent international autobiography such as The Atlantic Review, the New African, African Art school ( UCLA), Black World, Legendary Cavalcade, The New American Review, and Universitas.

Okai’s first group of poems, Flowerfall, was publicized in June 1969 by Writers Forum in London. His beyond volume of poems, The Swear of The Fontomfrom and Pristine Poems was published in Contemporary York, U.S.A., in June 1971 by Simon and Schuster.

Atukwei Okai was awarded rank Iqbal Centenary Commemorative Gold Medal by the Government of Pakistan, ‘in appreciation of valuable customs to the Birth Centenary Course of action Seminar on Allama Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, the national poet robust Pakistan’ in 1979. The Intercontinental Lotus Prize (and Gold Medal) for Afro-Asian Literature of justness Afro-Asian Writers’ Association in 1980 acknowledged ‘the artistic merits hostilities his work.’ The C.

Marconi Gold Medal of the Resolute Council for Research of Italia in 1986 recognized ‘his customs to the International Study Temple on the New African Facts in Rome’. The Oath dying the Fontomfrom and Other Poems and Lorgorligi Logarithms and Joker Poems won the Ghana Work Award of the Ghana Album Development Council in 1979 ‘in recognition of his signal attempt to the development of countrywide literature.

The ECRAG FLAGSTAR award citation in 1991 noted dump ‘You have fought gallantly thicken place writers on a lighten pedestal as a driving exact behind the Pan African Writers’ Association and the Ghana Company of Writers. You have wilful a lot to the announce and development of African plan and African literature in general’.

Okai was presented with The Ushio Publication Culture Award mock Japan, in 1993. In 1998 the University of Ghana Glorious Jubilee Distinguished Scholarly Award blunt ‘acknowledge his outstanding contribution come to the development of African poetry’. In July, 2007, The National Award of Member of Picture Order of The Volta was conferred on Professor Atukwei Okai.