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Austin Clarke Biography

Austin Clarke was a professor of literature and categorical at Yale, Brandeis, Williams, Duke, and the Universities of Texas and Indiana. He assisted in locale up a Black Studies program at Yale emphasis , after which he became the cultural attach&#; of the Embassy of Barbados in Washington, D.C.

Culminating with the international success of The Careful Hoe, which won the Giller Prize, the Land Writers' Prize, and the Trillium Prize, Austin Clarke's work since includes eleven novels, six short-story collections, and four memoirs. He lived in Toronto hanging fire his death in June

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