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 (born 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 (born 1945/47), poet, journalist and novelist[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]
- Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer[Jahn]
- William Conton (1925–2003), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]
- R. Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), doctor, playwright and novelist[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]
- Aminatta Forna (born 1964), memoirist and novelist
- Namina Forna (born 1987), novelist and screen writer
- Wilfred Freddy Will Kanu Jr. (born 1977) author, poet, lyricist, hip-hop emcee and blogger. [1]
- Africanus Horton (1835–1883), Creole African nationalist writer[Jahn]
- Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living), academic and novelist[2]
- Lemuel A. Johnson (1940/41–2002), poet and academic[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]
- Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), academic and literary critic[Jahn]
- Joseph Ben Kaifala (living), historian, memoirist and human rights activist
- Yulisa Amadu Maddy (1936–2014), playwright, novelist, and choreographer[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]
- Ambrose Massaquoi (born 1964), poet, musician and educationist[Brown]
- Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, barrister, writer and munitions worker[3]
- 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 (born 1937), journalist and short-story writer[Jahn]
See also
References
- ^ Kamara, Sally (30 January 2017). "INTERVIEW WITH FREDDY WILL: AUTHOR, ENTREPRENEUR & ARTIST". irepsalone.com/. iRep Salone. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ "Award for Sierra Leone war novel", BBC News, 5 April 2006.
- ^ Danell Jones (2018). An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor. Hurst. ISBN 978-1-78738-076-9.
- [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
- [Brown] Carolyn Brown, "Four Poets from the World". The Iowa Review 27, no. 2 (Summer–Fall 1997): 76–81.