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Also known as Ai Ogawa, Florence Anthony
US-amerikanische Dichterin und Hochschullehrerin
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Ai, born Florence Ai Li in 1947 in Albany, was an American poet, writer, and scholar of English. A member of the African American community, she practiced Buddhism and wrote in English. She was educated at the University of Arizona and the University of California, Irvine. Her notable works include *Becoming Evening*, *Sweetness*, *Bones of Kites*, *Hearing Me*, and *Word Healers*.
During her career, Ai received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Award, and the American Book Awards. Her work is recognized in the National Book Award collection and held in archives at the Library of Congress. She died of breast cancer in 2010 in Stillwater.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 69
Top works
- Becoming Evening
- Sweetness
- Bones of Kites
- Hearing Me
- Word Healers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Florence
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Albany
- Place of death
- Stillwater
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of California, Irvine
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Image
- Ai 2010.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ai (poet)
- date of birth
- 1947-10-21
- date of death
- 2010-03-20
- cause of death
- breast cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- writing language
- English language
- archives at
- Library of Congress
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Ai, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article · Deutsch
Ai (* 21. Oktober 1947 in Albany, Texas; † 20. März 2010 in Stillwater, Oklahoma) war eine US-amerikanische Dichterin, die sich auf den Dramatischen Monolog spezialisiert hatte, den sie sowohl anonymen Personen als auch bekannten Persönlichkeiten in den Mund legte. Ihre erste Monologsammlung wurde 1973 veröffentlicht; es folgten sieben weitere bis 2010. Nebst anderen Auszeichnungen erhielt Ai im Jahr 1999 den National Book Award. Zum Zeitpunkt ihres Todes lehrte sie Kreatives Schreiben an der Oklahoma State University.
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