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Grace Nichols was born on 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana, is a Guyanese poet. Discover Grace Nichols's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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1950

Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana.

1967

She took a Diploma in Communications from the University of Guyana, and subsequently worked as a teacher (1967–70), as a journalist and in government information services, before she migrated to the United Kingdom in 1977.

Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.

1983

Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and lived in a small village on the country's coast until her family moved to the city when she was eight years old.

Her first collection of poetry, I is a Long-Memoried Woman won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

A film adaptation subsequently won a gold medal at the International Film and Television Festival of New York, and the book was dramatised for BBC radio.

Nichols has been the recipient of several awards for her poetry, beginning with the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1983, for I is a Long Memoried Woman, and her work is on several GCSE syllabuses.

In 2021, Nichols was the recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, on the basis of her body of work, chosen by a committee chaired by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

She lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with her partner, the Guyanese poet John Agard.

1986

Her novel for adults, Whole of a Morning Sky, was published in 1986.

1992

In 1992, her work featured in the anthology Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby).

2006

Nichols has published several further books of poetry, including in 2006 volume of new and selected poems, Startling the Flying Fish, and her books for children encompass collections of short stories and poetry anthologies.

Her poetry is featured in the AQA, WJEC (Welsh Joint Education Committee), and Edexcel English/English Literature IGCSE anthologies – meaning that many GCSE students in the UK have studied her work.

Her religion is Christianity after she was influenced by the UK's many religions and multi-cultural society.

2011

In 2011 Nichols was a member of the first ever judging panel for a new schools poetry competition named "Anthologise", spearheaded by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

School students aged 11–18 from around the UK were invited to create and submit their own anthologies of published poetry.

The first ever winners of Anthologise were the sixth-form pupils of Monkton Combe School, Bath, with their anthology titled The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead.