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Poet Name: Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'
Given Name: Ralph Nixon
Last Name: Currey
Date of Birth: 14 December 1907
Biography: Born in Mafeking, South Africa in 1907, Ralph Nixon Currey was born and educated in South Africa until leaving for England for higher education. Currey was part of the British Royal Army in World War II and was respected for his war poetry. He was awarded the Viceroy's prize in 1945 and the South African poetry prize in 1959.

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Education: Wadham College
News Items: Books of the Week; Soldier-Poets and Others; Poets from Abroad; Exile in Colechester; Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; A New Look in Writing; From veld-lovers to freedom fighters; Voices from South Africa
Events: apdp.event.000067; Conference of the English Academy of Southern Africa at Rhodes University
Works: South African Poetry. A New Anthology, with a Foreword by Roy Campbell; Indian Landscape: A Book of Descriptive Poems; The Africa We Knew; Tiresias and Other Poems; This Other Planet: Three Poems on Exile; A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler; Exile in Colchester: Collected Poems; Poets in South Africa: An Anthology
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Place of Birth: South Africa, Mafeking
Spatial Coverage: Mafeking
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News