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Easterine Kire
Indian-Norwegian poet and author
In this Angami name, the surname is Kire.
Easterine Kire is an Indian poet and author who currently lives in northern Norway.
The majority of her writings are based in the lived realities of the people in Nagaland in north-east India.[1] Her motivation to write is summed up in this statement by her in an interview, "I felt we needed to create written Naga Literature.
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We have so much oral narratives but with oral dying out, it's all going to be lost." Apart from writing, she also performs Jazz poetry with her band Jazzpoesi.[2]
Early life
Easterine Kire was born on 29 March 1959 in Kohima to an Angami Naga family from Kohima Village.
She did her schooling in Baptist English School. She then went to pursue her undergraduate study in Shillong followed by a course in journalism in Delhi. She received a doctorate in English literature from Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Books
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