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Caribbean
Authors :
Opal Palmer Adisa:
Award-winning poet, educator
and storyteller; born in Kingston,
Jamaica; Biography, Website
Ruth Behar: Author,
filmmaker; born 1961 in Havana,
Cuba, raised in New York. Biography, Website: Books
Edward "Kamau" Brathwaite:
Poet, playwright, critic,
and historian; born 1930 in
Bridgetown, Barbados; Interview
with Kamau Brathwaite, Biography, Biography
Erna Brodber: Writer,
scholar, and activist; born
April 20, 1940 in Woodside,
St. Mary, Jamaica; Brief
Biography, An
interview with Erna Brodber.
Roslyn Carrington:
Novelist and columnist; born
in Trinidad; Website, Bio.
Aime Cesaire: Poet
and playwriter; born 1912
on Martinique. Brief
overview and bibliography, Books
Merle Collins: Poet,
actor, novelist; born September
29th,1950 in Aruba; raised
in Grenada; Biography
Maryse Condé (Philcox);
born 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre,
Guadeloupe; Biography
Rosario Ferre: Contemporary
Puerto Rican Essayist, Novelist,
Poet and Literary Critic;
born  1938
in Ponce, Puerto Rico; Biography, Books
Nicolas Guillen: Poet,
born in Camageuey, Cuba, 1904
- 1989; overview, biography, books.
Poems: Can
You? - Atomic
Bomb - Tell
Me - Bars. An
E-report on"Can You" "Ballad
of the Two Grandfathers".
Rosa Cuthbert Guy;
Novelist, Playwriter, and
activist, born September 1st
1929 in Trinidad raised in
the US; Biography, Interview
Wilson Harris: Novelist,
poet and non fiction writer;
born March 24, 1921, in New
Amsterdam, British Guiana
(now Guyana); Brief
Biography, Bibliography
Hubert Harrison: Writer,
orator, educator, critic,
and political activist; (1883-1927):
born in St. Croix of the Virgin
Islands, Brief
Biography.
Merle Hodge; Novelist,
Journalist; born 1944 in Curepe,
Trinidad; Biography
C. L. R. James: Cultural
historian, cricket writer,
and political activist; (1901-1989)
born in Port of Spain, Trinidad; Biography
and Bibliography. The
CLR James Institute
Jamaica Kincaid: Christened
Elaine Potter Richardson;
born May 25, 1949 in Antigua; Biography
and Bibliography, Mother
Jones.com interview, Books
George Lamming; Political
author, novelist; born June
8, 1927 in Barbados; Biography
and Bibliography, Interview
Earl Lovelace; Jounalist,
playwright, novelist, and
a short-story writer; born
1935 in Toco, Trinidad; Biography, Works.
V.S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar
Surajprasad Naipaul): A leading
novelist of the English-speaking
Caribbean, winner of the Nobel
Prize in literature 2001;
born 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad;  Biography, Bibliography, Interview, Review:
Beyond Belief, Books
Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell,
Novelist and editor; born
in Cocorite, Trinidad and
Tobago, Biography. Books
Lakshmi Persaud: born
1939 in Tunapuna, Trinidad; Biography, Works, Website, Books
Caryl Phillips; Novelist,
essayist, play and script
writer; born March 13, 1958,
in St. Kitts, raised in England; Website, Biography
Leone Ross, born June
26, 1969 in Coventry, England,
raised on Jamaica; Website, Brief
Biography, Books
 Derik
Walcott: Poet and dramatist;
born 1930 on St. Lucia;
1992 Nobel Literature Laureate; Bibliography
and Biography, Article
by Jöran Mjöberg, Books
More Caribbean Authors: Afua
Cooper Alejo Carpentier, Andrew
Salkey, Austin Clark
Bob Marley, Dionne Brand, Jacques
Roumain, James Berry, Janet Jagan
Julia Alvarez, Michelle Cliff, Neil
Bissoondath, Orlando Patterson,
Patrick Chamoiseau
Robert Antoni, Samuel Selvol, Reinaldo
Arenas, Paule Marshall, Gabriel
García Márquez, Edwidge
Danticat, René Depestre ,
Jean Rhys, Rosario Ferre, Olive
Senior, G. Cabrera Infante, Makeda
Silvera, Ana Lydia Vega, Roger Mais,
Eric Walrond, E. Markham, Myriam
Warner-Vieyra.
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