Austin Clark, author of The Polished Hoe, dies aged 81

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Austin Clark, author of The Polished Hoe, dies aged 81

Jun 27 2016

Austin Clarke, the award-winning Barbadian-born author who wrote about the immigrant experience and being black in Canada, died Sunday at age 81.

The author of at least eleven novels, six short-story collections, and four memoirs, Clarke is perhaps best remembered for The Polished Hoe, for which he was awarded the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

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