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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015)

Author of Coming to Birth

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Includes the names: Macgoye, Macgoye Oludhe, Marjorie, Marjorie Macgoye Macgoye

Works by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Coming to Birth (1986) 52 copies

The Present Moment (Women Writing Africa) (1987) 26 copies

Street Life (Secondary Readers Series, 8) (1987) 4 copies

Chira (Peak library fiction) (1997) 4 copies

A farm called Kishinev (2005) 3 copies

Growing Up at Lina School (2002) 2 copies

The Black Hand Gang (Junior Readers) (2003) 2 copies

Homing In (Sparrow Reader Series, 20) (1994) 2 copies

Murder in Majengo (New fiction from Africa series) (1972) 1 copy

Creative writing in prose (2009) 1 copy

The story of Kenya: A nation in the making (1986) 1 copy

Moral issues in Kenya: A personal view (1996) 1 copy

Song of Nyarloka and other poems (1977) 1 copy

Rebmann (2014) 1 copy

Associated Works

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 499 copies, 2 reviews

Poems from East Africa (1971) — Contributor — 35 copies

The Heinemann Book of African Women's Poetry (1995) — Contributor — 28 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1928-10-21
Date of death: 2015-12-01
Gender: female
Education: University of London (Royal Holloway College|English)
University of London (Birkbeck College MA in English|1953)
Organizations: Foyles bookshop, London
Nationality: UK (birth)
Kenya
Birthplace: Southampton, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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Awards

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Dublin Literary Award

Chira (Peak library fiction) (Longlist – 1999)

World Library by The Guardian

Coming to Birth (Kenya)

Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature

A farm called Kishinev (English Adult Fiction – 2007)

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Statistics

Works: 14
Also by: 3
Members: 101
Popularity: #188,709
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 24

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