The jamaican icon who made Jamaican language famous. Jamaican born ,she was one of the most explicit poet and wrote about all social aspects of the Jamaican society
Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1889. He was educated by his older brother, who possessed a library of English novels, poetry, and scientific
Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (born 10 January 1936) is a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derak Walcot He was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and began writing poetry at Titchfield High School.
Jean "Binta" Breeze (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller. She was brought up in rural Jamaica, and studied at the Jamaican School of Drama in Kingston
Juliet Christie Murray was born in Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica 1950, the elder of two children of a Panamanian mother.
Jeremyah "Gorak" Fasi is born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1919, the eldest of five children of a Haitian prostitute
John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920-1999) was a white Jamaican poet and educator, of Galician origin. Figueroa taught at the School of Education of the University of the West Indies
Honor Maria Ford-Smith (b. 1951, Montreal, Canada) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet. The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother and an English father
Lorna Goodison (born 1947) is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan.
Arthur Lemiere Hendriks was a Jamaican poet, writer, and broadcasting director. Hendriks was educated at Glasgow College West Coast and wrote poetry.
Joan Andrea Hutchinson
Joan Andrea Hutchinson is a young poet who has championed Jamaican. Joan Andrea Hutchinson is a writer, storyteller, actress, motivational speaker and teacher...
Thomas MacDermot was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for over twenty years. Thomas MacDermot worked to promote Jamaican literature through all of his writing, He published under the pseudonym Tom Redcam.
Roger Mais (August 11, 1905 Kingston−June 21, 1955 Kingston) was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica
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Una Maud Victoria Marson (5 May 1905 - 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and programmes for the BBC
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Brian Meeks was born in Montreal, Canada, of West Indian parents, and grew up in Jamaica. His poetry has been published in several anthologies
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Pamela Claire Mordecai (born 1942 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican writer, teacher, and scholar and poet. She attended high school in Jamaica and college in the USA,
Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and as Rhodes Scholar at St Edmund Hall, Morris has published several volumes of poetry,
Mutabaruka (born. 26th December, 1952, Rae Town, Jamaica as Allan Hope) is a Jamaican dub poet. in 2008, Mutabaruka was featured as part of the Jamaica episode of the television program
Onuora the "father of Jamaican dub poetry' came to public attention in the mid-1970s, as the then known Orlando Wong
Geoffrey Philp (born March 14, 1958) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, and playwright. He is the author of the novel, Benjamin, My Son and five poetry collections:
Kimberly-Ann Robinson-Walcott is a Jamaican poet and editor of the Jamaica Journal. Robinson-Walcott is author of a study of the white Jamaican novelist
Andrew Salkey (January 30, 1928 - April 28, 1995) was a novelist, poet, freelance writer and journalist of Jamaican and Trinidadian origin. Salkey was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica.. Salkey published a number of novels over the course of his career. He was also a BBC interviewer and a professor in writing at Hampshire College in Amherst
Olive Senior
Dennis Scott (December 16, 1939 – February 21, 1991) was a Jamaican poet, playwright, actorBorn in Kingston, Jamaica, Scott was educated at the University of the West Indies and taught in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
The Honourable Michael Garfield Smith OM (Jamaica) (1921 - 1993) was a Jamaican poet and social anthropologist. Smith was the son of a descendant of English army officers and merchants, and his mother a 'coloured' nurse who died in childbirth.
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