John Nkemngong Nkengasong has been short listed for the EduART Bate Besong Award for Poetry, for his poetry collection, Letters to Marion (And the Coming Generations). Nkengasong hails from Lewoh in the Lebialem Division in the South West Region of Cameroon. He is a poet, playwright, novelist and critic and the author of several works. His major works include Across the Mongolo (2004), W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot: Myths and Poetics of Modernism (2005), The Widow’s Might (2006), A Stylistic Guide to Literary Appreciation (2007), Letters to Marion and the Coming Generation (2009), The Call of Blood (2010), Black Caps and Red Feathers and Ancestral Earth (2011) and Achakasara (2011).
John Nkemngong Nkengasong has been participant at the Fulbright Institute of the Civilization of the United States of America at New York University, guest writer at the University of Oxford, visiting scholar at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. He currently teaches Literature at the University of Yaounde1, Cameroon.
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