ANTIGUA

Althea Prince, Ph.D., was born in Antigua and currently resides in Canada.  In 2007, she received the Antigua and Barbuda International Writers' Festival First Annual Award for Literary Excellence. The Children’s Book Centre ‘Choice’ Award for How the Star Fish Got to the Sea. Her books include The Politics of Black Women's Hair (2009), Ladies of the Night (2005) Loving this Man (2001), Being Black (2001)

Clifton Joseph

Jamaica Kincaid

Marie-Elena John

Monique S. Simon

 

BARBADOS

Angela Barry

Austin Clarke was born in 1934 in St. James, Barbados. He now resides in Canada. In 1998, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He won the Giller Prize for The Polished Hoe in 2002, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003. He is known for The Survivors of the Crossing (1964), Amongst Thistles and Thorns (1965), The Meeting Point (1967), Storm of Fortune (1973), The Bigger Light (1975), The Prime Minister (1977), Proud Empires (1988),  The Origin of Waves (1997, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize), The Question (1999, nominated for a Governor General's Award), The Polished Hoe (2002, winner of the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, More (2008), When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks (1971), When Women Rule (1985), Nine Men Who Laughed (1986),  In This City (1992), There Are No Elders (1993), Choosing His Coffin (2003), Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack (1980), Public Enemies: Police Violence and Black Youth (1992), A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Samuel Selvon (1994),  Pigtails 'n' Breadfruit (1999).

Deanne Kennedy

Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Frank Collymore

Glenville Lovell

Itah Sadu

Kwadwo Agymah Kamau

Nicole Blades

Paule Marshall

Robert Edison Sandiford

 

BELIZE

Zee Edgell

 

CUBA

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont(December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who was born in Switzerland to a Russian mother and French father. His works include Praise be the Lord!, The Kingdom of the World, War of Time, The Lost Step, Reasons of State, Concierto Barroco, The Harp and the Shadow. After his death in Paris, his remains were returned to Havana for internment.

Celia Lisset Alvarez

Dora Alonzo

Mirta Yanez

Omega Aguero

Virgil Suarez

 

DOMINICA

Daniel Thaly

Edward Scobie

Elma Napier

Jean Rhys

J.R. Ralph Casimir

 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Aida Cartagena Portalatin

Alan Cambeira

Angela Hernandez

Hilma Contreras

Phyllis Shand Allfrey

 

GRENADA

Merle Collins

 

GUADELOUPE

Maryse Conde

Simone Schwartz Bart

 

GUYANA

Arnold Itwaru

Betty Gilroy

Cyril Dabydeen

Edward R. Braithwaite

Fred D'Aguiar

Grace Nichols

Jan Carew was born in 1920 in Agricola, Guyana. He is the author of Green Winter, Grenada: The Hour Will Strike Again, Black Midas, The Wild Coast, Fulcrums of Change, Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean, The Last Barbarian, and The Guyanese Wanderer.

Janice Shinebourne

Marina Taitt

Martin Wylde Carter

Myriam Warner Vieyra

Narmala Shewcharan

Oonya Kempadoo

Oscar R. Dathorne

Pauline Melville

Peter Jailall

Sasenarine Persaud

Tessa McWatt

Wilson Harris

 

HAITI

Dany Laferriere

Edwidge Danticat

Liliane Devieux

Marie Chauvet Vieux

Marie-Therese Colimon-Hall

Myriam J. Chancey

Yanick Lahens

 

JAMAICA

Afua Cooper

Alecia McKenzie

Alice Durie

Andrea Levy

Andrew Salkey

Anthony C. Winkler

Anthony McNeil

Ayana Black

Bernadette Dyer

Beverley East

Brian Meeks

C. Everard Palmer

Carol Taylor

Carolyn Cooper

Chet Singh

Christine Craig

Christopher John Farley

Claude McKay

Colin Channer

Dennis Scott

Donna Hemans

Edward Baugh

Edward Lucie-Smith

Edward Watson

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Enid D'Oyley

Erna Brodber

Geoffrey Philip

Hazel D. Campbell

Herbert de Lisser

Honor Ford Smith

Jean Binta Breeze

Jean daCosta

Jean Goulbourne

Joan Riley

John Hearne (d)

John Joseph Maria Figueroa (d)

Juanita Harmon

Kara Miller

Kei Miller

Kim Robinson Walcott

Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte

Klive Walker

Klyde Broox

Leone Ross

Kwame Dawes

Leone Ross

Lindsay Esoghene Barrett

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Lorna Goodison

Malcolm Gladwell was born in England to a Jamaican mother, Joyce (Brown Face, Big Master 2004) and a British father, Graham Gladwell. He grew up in rural Ontario, Canada and now lives in New York City. He has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of three books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, (2000) , Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), and Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) all of which were number one New York Times bestsellers.

Makeda Silvera

Margaret Cezair-Thompson

Marlon James

Mary Anne Barker

Mervyn Morris

Michelle Cliff

Nalo Hopkinson was born in 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica but currently resides in Canada. Hopkinson is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for an Emerging Writer. She received the Locus Award in 1998, the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003. She is the author of Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) Midnight Robber (2000) Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000, ed.), Skin Folk (2001), Mojo: Conjure Stories (2003, ed.), The Salt Roads (2003), So Long Been Dreaming (2004, ed.) and The New Moon's Arms (2007)

Neville Dawes

Nicola Johnson

Olive Senior

Opal Palmer Adisa

Orlando Patterson

Pam Mordecai

Patricia Powell

Peter Abrahms

Rachael Manley

Roger Mais

Shara McCallum

Sharon Leach

Thomas Glave

Thomas MacDermot (Tom Redcam) d

Una Marson

Velma Pollard

Victor Stafford Reid

Winston James

Yvonne Brewster

Z. Nia Reynolds

Zadie Smith

 

MARTINIQUE

Aime Cesaire

Edouard Glissant

Frantz Fanon

Jeanne Hyvrard

Joseph Zobel

Patrick Chamoiseau

 

MONTSERRAT

Yvonne Weekes

 

PUERTO RICO

Ana Lydia Vega

Carmen Lugo Filippi

Magali Garcia Ramis

Olga Nolla

Rosario Ferre

 

St. KITTS

Caryl Phillips Novelist, essayist, play and script writer; born March 13, 1958, in St. Kitts and raised in England. He studied English Literature at Oxford University and is the author of The Final Passage, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River, The Nature of Blood, A Distant Shore, Dancing in the Dark, Foreigners, and In the Falling Snow.

 

St. LUCIA

Derek Walcott

Hazel Simmons-McDonald

 

St. MARTIN

Drisana Deborah Jack

 

SURINAME

Astrid Roemer

Bea Vianen

 

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Alfred Mendes

Andre Alexis

Arnold Rampersad

Cyril Lionel James

Dionne Brand

Earl Lovelace

Elizabeth Nunez

Frank Birbalsingh

Kenneth Ramchand

Lakshmi Persaud

Lawrence Scott

Lyn-Anne Ali

Marion Patrick-Jones

Marlene NourbeSe-Philip

Merle Hodge

Michael Anthony

Neil Bissoondath

Niala Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj

Ralph de Boissiere

Ramabai Espinet

Robert Antoni

Rosa Guy

Samuel Selvon

Shani Mootoo

V.S. Naipaul

Wayne Vincent Brown