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| [[Image: Amma Darko2.jpg|thumb|The Ghaian writer Amma Darko]] | | [[Image: Amma Darko2.jpg|thumb|The Ghaian writer Amma Darko]] |
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| '''Amma Darko''' (born June 26, 1956 in Koforidua, Ghana) is a [[Ghana|Ghanaian]] author. She published her first novel in 1995. For her works, she received the Ghana Book Council Development Award. Her books have been translated into many languages. | | '''Amma Darko''' (born June 26, 1956 in Koforidua, Ghana) is a [[Ghana|Ghanaian]] author. She published her first novel in 1995. For her works, she received the Ghana Book Council Development Award. Her books have been translated into many languages. |
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| ==Biography== | | ==Biography== |
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| Amma Darko was born Ophelia Darko. The name "Amma" is used in the Akan culture for a girl born on a Saturday. Usually, this day-name is more common than the official name. | | Amma Darko was born Ophelia Darko. The name "Amma" is used in the Akan culture for a girl born on a Saturday. Usually, this day-name is more common than the official name. |
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| In 1999, she won the Ghana Book Award. | | In 1999, she won the Ghana Book Award. |
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| ==Bibliography==
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| Most of her books were first published in a German translation before they appeared in the English original. Some books were not published in English.
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| * {{cite book
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| | title = Beyond the horizon (Der verkaufte Traum)
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| | origyear = 1991
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| | year = 1995
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| | publisher = Heinemann/Schmetterling-Verl.
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| | isbn = 978-0435909901 <A href='www.pickitisbn:978-0435909901'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| *: Amma Darko's first novel is influenced by her German impressions. She has observed the interaction between Germans and Ghanaian immigrants very well.
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| *: The book is about a young woman, Mara, who follows her husband to Germany, not knowing that he has married a German in the meantime. Though the book deals with serious topics like illegitimate immigration, illegitimate marriage and prostitution, there is never any bitter morality in it.
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| * {{cite book
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| | first = Amma
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| | last = Darko
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| | title = Spinnweben (Transl.:"Cobwebs"; no English version)
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| | year = 1996
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| | publisher = Schmetterling-Verl.
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| | isbn = 978-3926369178 <A href='www.pickitisbn:978-3926369178'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| *: The second novel is a reflection about roots. There are dialogs between a Ghanaian living in German and the German friends around her.
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| * {{cite book
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| | title = Verirrtes Herz (Transl.:"Stray heart"; no English version)
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| | year = 2000
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| | publisher = Schmetterling-Verl.
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| | isbn = 978-3896571199 <A href='www.pickitisbn:978-3896571199'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| *: This is the first book which is completely set in Ghana. The young protagonist, Kesewa; is illiterate. She has to work hard for her parents and brothers and is not able to attend school regularly. In her adult life, she becomes distrustful and envious and causes a lot of trouble.
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| * {{cite book
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| | first = Amma
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| | title = Faceless (Die Gesichtslosen)
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| | year = 2003
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| | publisher = Sub-Saharan Publishers/Schmetterling-Verl.
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| | isbn = 978-9988550509 <A href='www.pickitisbn:978-9988550509'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| *: This vivid novel is about a middle class woman coming into contact with street children. Those children are living in a part of Accra called “Sodom and Gomorrha”.
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| It is the first book that was published in Ghana.
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| * {{cite book
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| | first = Amma
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| | title = Not without Flowers (Das Lächeln der Nemesis)
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| | origyear = 2006
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| | year = 2007
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| | publisher = Sub-Saharan Publishers/Schmetterling-Verl.
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| | isbn = 978-9988647131 <A href='www.pickitisbn:978-9988647131'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| *: Two stories of women with unfaithful husbands are interwoven. The suspenseful novel touches the subjects of polygamy, still legal in Ghana, and of so-called prophets and religious camps for mentally handicapped people.
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| ==Literature==
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| | last = Odamtten
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| | title = Broadening the horizon : critical introductions to Amma Darko
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| | year = 2007
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| | publisher = Ayebia Clarke
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| | isbn = 9780954702380 <A href='www.pickitisbn:9780954702380'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| * {{cite book
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| | first = Petra
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| | last = Leitmeir
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| | title = Amma Darko - Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland (Transl.: "Amma Darko – Intercultural Literature in Germany?")
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| | year = 2004
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| | publisher = GRIN Verlag
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| | isbn = 3638285723 <A href='www.pickitisbn:3638285723'><img style='border: 0px none' src='https://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=findit' title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'/></A>
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| ==External Links==
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| * [http://www.ammadarko.de Official website]
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| * [http://www.awuraba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=417&Itemid=149/ Portrait of Amma Darko; Interview]
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| * [http://www.fernsehworkshop.de/2007/Filme/Roamingaround.htm/ Film based on the novel “Faceless” - text in German language]
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