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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. 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 has written one novel, Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), but the majority of her literary output is poetry, for both adults and children. Much of her poetry offers social commentary, particularly with regard to women’s issues and immigration, but she maintains a light-hearted approach and is committed to her poetic craft.
- Georgetown, Guyana
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Virago
Grace Nichols is a poet whose work has been central to our understanding of the important cultural Caribbean-British connection for nearly 3 decades. From her first collection, I Is a Long Memoried Woman (1983), to her more recent work such as Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), she has uncovered with a disquieting lyricism and humour the ...
Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950 and grew up in a small country village on the Guyanese coast. She moved to the city with her family when she was eight, an experience central to her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), set in 1960s Guyana in the middle of the country’s struggle for independence.
Mar 15, 2021 · Grace Nichols was born and educated in Guyana. Since moving to Britain in 1977 and winning the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first collection; ‘ I is a Long-Memoried Woman’ she has written many books for both adults and children including a novel, ‘Whole Of A Morning Sky’.
Grace Nichols was born in Guyana in 1950. She has published many collections of poetry including I Is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), The Fat Black Woman's Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (1989), Sunris (1996), Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), The Insomnia Poems (2017) and Passport to Here and There (2020).
A generous, witty and warm poet, Grace has written about what it was like for her growing up, as well as how it feels to be far away from home, having been born and grown up in Guyana in the Caribbean before coming to live in England.
