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
References
- ↑ "Award for Sierra Leone war novel", BBC News, 5 April 2006.
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- [Gikandi] Simon Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3
- [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
- [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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