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Anne Walmsley (born 1931) [1] is a British-born editor, scholar, critic and author, notable as a specialist in Caribbean art and literature, whose career spans five decades. She is widely recognised for her work as Longman's Caribbean publisher, [2] and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited
Children's Writers Award (Jamaican Reading Association, 1976) [1] Gertrude Flesh Bristol Award (Hamilton College, 1984) [1] ... Longman Caribbean. 1978.
Jan Rynveld Carew (24 September 1920 – 6 December 2012) [1] was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, the UK, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada and the United States.
The daughter of Caribbean parents, [2] she was born Myriam Warner in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.She completed secondary school in Europe and moved to Dakar in Senegal. [3] She earned a diploma in library science at Cheikh Anta Diop University [2] and worked for several years as a librarian. [3]
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 ...
Kenneth Ramchand (born 1939) is a Trinidad and Tobago academic and writer, who is widely respected as "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction". [1] He has written extensively on many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon, as well as editing several significant cultural publications.
Michael Arthur Gilkes (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2020) [1] [2] was a Caribbean literary critic, dramatist, poet, filmmaker and university lecturer. He was involved in theatre for more than 40 years, [3] as a director, actor and playwright, [4] [5] winning the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992 and 2006, as well as the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002.
Rohlehr is the author of several books on different aspects of Caribbean culture. He has said that his interest on researching and writing about calypso music dates back to his attendance of the Caribbean Artists Movement's second meeting, held in 1967 at the North London flat of Orlando Patterson, [15] when in response to discussion among the likes of Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming and ...