Playwright, poet, short story and children's writer John Agard was born on 21 June 1949 in British Guiana (now Guyana). Now living in Britain, in 2012 he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021.
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