About Colin Style
Lived 1933 – 2014 (aged 81). Colin Style was a writer and poet.
Colin Style (19 September 1933 – 22 September 2014) was a British-Zimbabwean poet and writer. He was awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize for best published collection in English in Southern Africa, 1977 with Baobab Street.
Biography He was raised in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) where he attended Prince Edward School. The project was not sustainable long-term as few international poets and scholars chose to identify with the cultural productions of a pariah state, as Rhodesia had become known. Musical Saw (Harare: Mopani Series, 1981)
Personal life He married the writer O-lan Style and they had a daughter together, Kelda. The family relocated to Kent, England in 1977 before settling permanently in Devon in 1988. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 2014.
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Who was Colin Style?
british-Zimbabwean poet and writer
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Colin Style was born on 19 September 1933.
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Colin Style died on 22 September 2014.
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Colin Style was a writer and poet.
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