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Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin. He was born in Panama but raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1952 to pursue a job in the literary world, combining a job in a South London Comprehensive school teaching English with a job working on the door of a West End night club. The 1960s and 1970s saw Salkey working as a broadcaster for the BBC World Service, Caribbean section. A prolific writer and editor, he was the author of more than 30 books in the course of his career, including novels for adults and for children, poetry collections, anthologies, travelogues and essays. In the 1960s he was a co-founder with John La Rose and Kamau Brathwaite of the Caribbean Artists Mov

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  • Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey (30. ledna 1928, Colón, Panama – 28. dubna 1995, , Massachusetts, USA) byl jamajský spisovatel. (cs)
  • Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin. He was born in Panama but raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1952 to pursue a job in the literary world, combining a job in a South London Comprehensive school teaching English with a job working on the door of a West End night club. The 1960s and 1970s saw Salkey working as a broadcaster for the BBC World Service, Caribbean section. A prolific writer and editor, he was the author of more than 30 books in the course of his career, including novels for adults and for children, poetry collections, anthologies, travelogues and essays. In the 1960s he was a co-founder with John La Rose and Kamau Brathwaite of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM). Salkey died in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he had been teaching since the 1970s, holding a lifetime position as Writer-In-Residence at Hampshire College. (en)
  • Andrew Salkey (Ciudad de Colón, Panamá, 30 de enero de 1928 – 28 de abril de 1995) fue un novelista, poeta y periodista de origen jamaicano y haitiano. Se convirtió en un escritor prolífico, con más de 30 libros en el curso de su carrera, incluyendo novelas para adultos y para niños, colecciones de poesía, antologías y ensayos.​ (es)
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  • Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey (30. ledna 1928, Colón, Panama – 28. dubna 1995, , Massachusetts, USA) byl jamajský spisovatel. (cs)
  • Andrew Salkey (Ciudad de Colón, Panamá, 30 de enero de 1928 – 28 de abril de 1995) fue un novelista, poeta y periodista de origen jamaicano y haitiano. Se convirtió en un escritor prolífico, con más de 30 libros en el curso de su carrera, incluyendo novelas para adultos y para niños, colecciones de poesía, antologías y ensayos.​ (es)
  • Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin. He was born in Panama but raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1952 to pursue a job in the literary world, combining a job in a South London Comprehensive school teaching English with a job working on the door of a West End night club. The 1960s and 1970s saw Salkey working as a broadcaster for the BBC World Service, Caribbean section. A prolific writer and editor, he was the author of more than 30 books in the course of his career, including novels for adults and for children, poetry collections, anthologies, travelogues and essays. In the 1960s he was a co-founder with John La Rose and Kamau Brathwaite of the Caribbean Artists Mov (en)
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