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Roger Mais

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Roger Mais was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1951, he had won ten first prizes in West Indian literary competitions. His integral role in the development of political and cultural nationalism is evidenced in his being awarded the high honour of the Order of Jamaica in 1978.

Books

Brother Man
Brother Man
Roger Mais
The Hills Were Joyful Together
The Hills Were Joyful Together
Roger Mais
Black Lightning
Black Lightning
Roger Mais
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories
Various, Jamaica Kincaid, Eric Walrond, Sam Selvon, Jean Rhys, Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Lorna Goodison, Paule Marshall, James Berry, Wayne Brown, Lawrence Scott, Andrew Salkey, Erna Brodber, Earl Lovelace, Makeda Silvera, Neil Bissoondath, Olive Senior, Roger Mais, Wilson Harris, Hazel D. Campbell, Willi Chen, Pauline Melville, Louise Bennett, Wilfred Wood, Kenneth Vidia Parmasad, Seepersad Naipaul, Claude MacKay, Frank Collymore, C... L. R. James, Garth St Omer, Vidiadhar Surajprashad Naipaul, N... D. Williams, Clyde Hosein, Alecia MacKenzie
Roger Mais
Black Lightening
Black Lightening
Roger Mais

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