Literature & Ideas
Distinguished
Frank Chipasula
born 1949
Poet of exile, and a founder of the Malawi Writers Group
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Malawi Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
He wrote against Banda's Malawi from outside it, and edited the anthologies that carried African poetry to readers who would never have found it otherwise.
Frank Chipasula is a Malawian poet and editor, and one of the founders of the Malawi Writers Group in 1970 alongside Jack Mapanje and Lupenga Mphande.
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