From Geoffrey Philp:
The deal is to name 25 writers who have influenced you, and then tag 25 people.
Hear ye the gospel according to Fragano: “Influence” does not mean the same thing as “enjoy a lot.”
(Just to note — this has been cross-posted with Blogworld so I can cross both my writing networks)
As with everyone else, before, in no particular order:
- T. S. Eliot – for blowing my mind
- Kamau Brathwaite – for blowing my mind again
- Ngugi wa Thing’o – for inspiring me to write plays
- Chinua Achebe – for Things Fall Apart and A Man of the People
- Toni Morrison – for just being
- William Shakespeare (no, for real) – what I said about Morrison
- W. B. Yeats – for channelling ghosts and writing great verse
- C. S. Lewis – for Narnia and concision
- Bronislaw Malinowski – for participant observation, the Trobriand ethnographies, and theory I can believe in
- Claude Levi-Strauss – for Tristes Tropiques Continue reading
