Scénariste

Amiri Baraka

Autres noms: Everett Leroy Jones, LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amear Baraka

Date de naissance

7 octobre 1934

Date de décès

9 janvier 2014

(décédé à 79 ans)

Lieu de naissance

Newark, New Jersey, USA

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Biographie

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.