Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes | |
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Dawes at Split This Rock, 2018 | |
| Born | Kwame Senu Neville Dawes 28 July 1962 Ghana |
| Occupation | Poet, documentary writer, editor, critic |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Education | Jamaica College; University of the West Indies; University of New Brunswick |
| Spouse | Lorna Dawes |
| Parents | Sophia and Neville Dawes |
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Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine.
New York–based Poets & Writers named Dawes as a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, which recognises writers who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community. In 2022, he was named "literary Person of the Year" by African literary blog Brittle Paper, an honour that "recognizes an individual who has done outstanding work in advancing the African literary industry and culture in the given year".
In April 2024, Dawes was announced as the new poet laureate of Jamaica. Dawes joined the faculty of Brown University in 2024.