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Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in historical contexts, as West Indian literature .
Caribbean women writers (19 C, 8 P) A. Anguillan writers (1 C, 2 P) Antigua and Barbuda writers (3 C, 6 P) Aruban writers (4 C, 6 P) B. Bahamian writers (5 C, 6 P)
Garth St Omer (1931-2018) was a St Lucian novelist.He was part of an emerging group of St Lucian artists that also included Derek Walcott and Dunstan St Omer.He studied at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and obtained his PhD from Princeton University.
Swanzy, on whose program a generation of Caribbean writers had debuted, including George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, the 19-year-old Derek Walcott and, earlier, Naipaul himself, was being transferred to Accra to manage the Gold Coast Broadcasting System. Naipaul would stay in the part-time job for four years, and Pat would remain the critical ...
Jamaican Thomas MacDermot (1870–1933) is credited with fostering the creation of Jamaican literature. According to critic Michael Hughes, MacDermot was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture," [2] and his Becka's Buckra Baby [3] as the beginning of modern Caribbean literature.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Caribbean writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) [1] is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. [2]
Toggle Caribbean subsection. 3.1 Cuba. 3.2 Dominican Republic. 3.3 Haiti. 3.4 Puerto Rico. ... This is a list of some of the most important writers from Latin America