Not without Flowers

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Amma Darko began her writing career in Germany where she sojourned in the eighties. She is a graduate ofthe College ofArt, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi - Ghana. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Beyond the Horizon (1995) and The Housemaid (1998), published by Heinemann (Oxford) in the African Writer Series. Her third növel, Faceless (2003) was her first to come out in Ghana and was published by Sub-Saharan Publishers. She alsó contributed the short story 46The Colour of Poverty" (2001) to a collection by Amnesty International , Germany. She has been published in other languages and was the recipient ofthe Ghana Book Award in 1998. She is a fellow ofthe Cambridge Seminar (U.K.), International Writing Program (Iowa, U.S.A.) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany). Currently she works with the Internál Revenue Service in Accra, Ghana where she lives with her family. She is married with three children. * Picture by courtesy of Dr. Regina... Tovább

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Amma Darko began her writing career in Germany where she sojourned in the eighties. She is a graduate ofthe College ofArt, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi - Ghana. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Beyond the Horizon (1995) and The Housemaid (1998), published by Heinemann (Oxford) in the African Writer Series. Her third növel, Faceless (2003) was her first to come out in Ghana and was published by Sub-Saharan Publishers. She alsó contributed the short story 46The Colour of Poverty" (2001) to a collection by Amnesty International , Germany. She has been published in other languages and was the recipient ofthe Ghana Book Award in 1998. She is a fellow ofthe Cambridge Seminar (U.K.), International Writing Program (Iowa, U.S.A.) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany). Currently she works with the Internál Revenue Service in Accra, Ghana where she lives with her family. She is married with three children. * Picture by courtesy of Dr. Regina Bouillon "Over a decade Amma Darko appears to have seized the centre stage ofwomens world, plowing tickling and reaching into inner recesses, to teli their story. A story of misery, pam, agony, dilemmas, frustrations. After Facetessf her last növel, where the grim realities of Street side mghtmares unfold in gory detail,Amma Darko floats her reader this time on a petal of Flowers, with a capital F. ...It's world full of kiverted reality; yet this topsyturvy world, becomes the norm in Not Without Flowers. The lessons m the book make it compulsory reading by all in seajrch of dreadfal social realities, in a veiled world of peace and tranquility." 1 Kwesi mnkah University of Ghanahegon í ISBN 978-9988-647-13-1 9789988647131 Vissza