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Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin.. He was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1952 to pursue a job in the literary world, combining a job in a South London comprehensive school teaching English with a job working on the door of a West End night ...
Lucille d'Oyen Iremonger, née Parks, (June 1915 – January 1989) was a Jamaican writer and politician, active in the United Kingdom. Iremonger was born to Ivy Lucille (Joseph) Parks and Basil Oscar Parks (1882–1947) in Kingston, Jamaica. Both parents were born in Jamaica; her paternal grandparents, however, were from England and Scotland.
Candice Carty-Williams (born 1989), writer and author. She was the first black woman to win the British Book Awards "Book of the Year" accolade for her novel Queenie; Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949), author and socialite; Patricia Cumper (born 1954), playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator
Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (née Ziadie, born 17 August 1949), also known as Lady C, is a British Jamaican author, socialite, and television personality who has published seven unauthorised books about the British royal family.
James Berry, OBE, Hon. FRSL (28 September 1924 – 20 June 2017), [1] was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois. [2]
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 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.
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.