Archie Lindo

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Archie Lindo (20 January 1908 – 2 April 1990) was a Jamaican photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster.[1][2][3] He was one of the most successful Jamaican playwrights of the 1940s.[4] His photographs are part of the National Gallery of Jamaica collection.[5] He received the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica as well as an Order of Distinction from the government.[6] He was also an art critic for The Star from 1960.[1]

Lindo was a member of the Poetry League of Jamaica and was a columnist for The Gleaner.[6] Left in charge of Jamaica's only radio station at the time, , he broadcast local programming including Louise Bennett and the Jamaica Military Band. The radio station was succeeded by RJR.[6]

Bibliography[]

  • Under the Skin, a play[7]
  • The Maroon, a play

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b The Daily Gleaner, 4 April 1990.
  2. ^ Michael Reckord (25 October 2013). "Archie Lindo covered, produced the arts". The Gleaner.
  3. ^ Archie Lindo (1945). My Heart was Singing: Poems and Short Stories. B.W.I., College Press.
  4. ^ Martin Mordecai; Pamela Mordecai (2001). Culture and Customs of Jamaica. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-0-313-30534-4. archie lindo.
  5. ^ "Archie Lindo – Irish Moss Gatherers(rgb)". December 3, 2015.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c Michael Reckord (1 November 2013). "Islandwide by road, airwaves - Archie Lindo produces plays, programmes". gleaner-jamaica.com. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  7. ^ Albert James Arnold; Julio Rodríguez-Luis; J. Michael Dash (1 January 2001). A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 297. ISBN 90-272-3448-5.


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