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Austin Clarke Biography

Austin Clarke was a professor of literature and taught at Yale, Brandeis, Williams, Duke, and the Universities of Texas and Indiana. He assisted in setting up a Black Studies program at Yale in , after which he became the cultural attach&#; of the Embassy of Barbados in Washington, D.C.

Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe, which won the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Trillium Prize, Austin Clarke's work since includes eleven novels, six short-story collections, and four memoirs.

Biography of austin clarke Article Talk. Clarke, Erskine Clarke, George Elliott. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list.

He lived in Toronto until his death in June

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