List of Sierra Leonean writers

This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers.

• John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat.^[Jahn]
• Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist.^[Jahn]
• Ishmael Beah (1980– ), child soldier and memoirist.
• Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), pan-Africanist, born in the Virgin Islands (see also Liberia)
• Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator.^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana.^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Syl Cheney-Coker (1945/47– ), poet, journalist and novelist.^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Robert Wellesley Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer.^[Jahn]
• William Conton (1925– ), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia.^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• R. Sarif Easmon (1913– ), doctor, playwright and novelist.^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Aminatta Forna (1964– ), memoirist and novelist.
• Africanus Horton (1835–1883), Creole African nationalist writer.^[Jahn]
• Delia Jarrett-Macauley, academic and novelist.^[1]
• Lemuel A. Johnson (1940/41–2002), poet and academic.^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925– ), academic and literart critic.^[Jahn]
• Yulisa Amadu Maddy (1936– ), playwright, novelist, and choreographer.^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Abioseh Nicol (1924–1994), doctor and short story writer.^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), poet also associated with The Gambia.^[Gikandi]
• Ekundayo Rowe (1937–), journalist and short-story writer.^[Jahn]

See also

• List of African writers by country
• List of Sierra Leoneans

References

1. "Award for Sierra Leone war novel", BBC News, 5 April 2006.

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1. [Gikandi] Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
2. [Jahn] Janheinz Jahn, Ulla Schild & Almut Nordmann Seiler, eds., Who's who in African Literature: Biographies, Works, Commentaries. Horst Erdmann Verlag, 1972. ISBN 978-3-7711-0153-4
3. [Killam & Rowe] Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe, eds., The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey & Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-253-33633-3

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