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Aston Cooke (5 January 1958 – 22 February 2019) was one of Jamaica's leading playwrights and the recipient of nine national Actor Boy Awards for outstanding achievement in various categories of theatre in Jamaica. Cooke was an inductee to the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Arts and Culture for his contribution to Jamaican theatre over the years.
This is a list of Jamaican writers, including writers either from or associated with Jamaica This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Jamaican dramatists and playwrights (2 C, 15 P) J. Jamaican children's writers (1 C, 6 P) L. Jamaican literary critics (2 P) N. Jamaican non-fiction writers (3 C, 19 P)
Trevor Dave Rhone CD (24 March 1940 – 15 September 2009) [2] was a Jamaican writer, playwright and filmmaker. He co-wrote, with director Perry Henzell, the internationally successful film The Harder They Come (1972). [3]
Jones remains the most accomplished Jamaican international screenwriter to date. His poetry, especially 'The Song of the Banana Man', is widely anthologised and his output as a playwright for theatre and television spans four decades. He is also the writer of two novels, a biography and collections of Jamaican folk stories.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jamaican dramatists and playwrights. It includes dramatists and playwrights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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.