Archie Lindo

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, ZQI, 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. 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. 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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