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Kendel Hippolyte
Kendel Hippolyte (born 1952) is a St Lucian poet and playwright. Biography Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, the capital of St Lucia, and was educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He worked as a teacher at St Mary's College in Vigie, Castries, and the Sir Arthur Lewis College at the Morne. He is actively involved as a playwright and director with the Lighthouse Theatre Company, of which he was a co-founder. He has written eight plays. His best known, ''Drum-maker'', uses idiomatic Caribbean language to explore the indigenous local culture in a political context. He has published several collections of verse, characterized by its modernist free style. He is also the editor of the anthologies ''Confluence: Nine Saint Lucian Poets'' (1988) and ''So Much Poetry in We People'' (1990). In 2000, he was awarded the St. Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for Contribution to the Arts. In 2013 he won the poetry category of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature OC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendel Hippolyte (cropped)
Kendel Hippolyte (born 1952) is a St Lucian poet and playwright. Biography Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, the capital of St Lucia, and was educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He worked as a teacher at St Mary's College in Vigie, Castries, and the Sir Arthur Lewis College at the Morne. He is actively involved as a playwright and director with the Lighthouse Theatre Company, of which he was a co-founder. He has written eight plays. His best known, ''Drum-maker'', uses idiomatic Caribbean language to explore the indigenous local culture in a political context. He has published several collections of verse, characterized by its modernist-free style. He is also the editor of the anthologies ''Confluence: Nine Saint Lucian Poets'' (1988) and ''So Much Poetry in We People'' (1990). In 2000, he was awarded the St. Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for Contribution to the Arts. In 2013, he won the poetry category of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of The West Indies Alumni
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21st-century Male Writers
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21st-century Saint Lucian Poets
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Saint Lucian Dramatists And Playwrights
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People From Castries Quarter
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Living People
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21st-century Dramatists And Playwrights
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1952 Births
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St Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian peoples. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of with an estimated population of over 180,000 people as of 2022. The national capital is the city of Castries. The first proven inhabitants of the island, the Arawaks, are believed to have first settled in AD 200–400. Around 800 AD, the island would be taken over by the Kalinago. The French were the first Europeans to settle on the island, and they signed a treaty with the native Caribs in 1660. England took control of the island in 1663. In ensuing years, England and France fought 14 times for control of the island, and the rule of the is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane King (poet)
Jane King (born 1952) is a Saint Lucia, St. Lucian poet, a leading West Indian literature, West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II. Biography Jane King was born in Castries but had a peripatetic childhood, as her family spent time in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Scotland during her early years. After St Joseph's Convent in St Lucia, she won a St Lucia island scholarship to study at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1976 she has taught in various institutions, including the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in Castries, where she also served as the Dean of their Division of Arts and General Studies. King has published three collections of poems: ''Into the Centre'' (1993), ''Fellow Traveller'' (1994) and ''Performance Anxiety'' (2013).Commonwealth Writers Prize, Caribbean and Canada, and James Rodway Memorial Prize). Her poems are known for the wry wit with which they address the place of a light-skinned narrator in a race-conscious Caribbean as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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