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Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences with boundless wit in his previous books. In Greetings from Grandpa - his sixth collection - Mapanje is still effervescent, with his wry humor defiantly intact. The narratives in Greetings from Grandpa are mellow and cheerful testimonies of the sojourn of the human spirit as it survives freedom under implausible circumstances, whether at home or in exile.
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Jack Mapanje was head of the Department of English at the University of Malawi when the Malawi authorities arrested him in 1987 after his first book of poems had been banned, and he was released in 1991 after spending three years, seven months and sixteen days in prison, following an international outcry against his incarceration. His books include The Last of the Sweet Bananas: New & Selected Poems (2004), Beasts of Nalunga (2007) and Greetings from Grandpa (2016) from Bloodaxe, and the prison memoir, And Crocodiles Are Hungry at Night (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2011), He lives in exile in York with his family, and is a visiting professor in the faculty of art at York St John University.
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Mapanje reinserts his voice as a legend in the arena of contemporary Malawi and modern African poetry. . . Much as he has traveled the world and lived in exile, he continues to produce poetry that embodies continuity and commitment to ideals that uplift the human spirit, celebrate the orature of his people, and question the political context of his homeland. --World Literature Today
Given the regime, Mapanje's satire can seem strangely generous, impressively blending the memory of terror with a sense almost of farce when he considers his captors. --- Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times
Given the regime, Mapanje's satire can seem strangely generous, impressively blending the memory of terror with a sense almost of farce when he considers his captors. --- Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times
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- Publication date2016
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