Gaston Bart-Williams (1938-1990) was a Sierra Leonean journalist, film director, novelist, poet, diplomat and activist. He lived and worked mainly in Germany.[1]
Gaston Bart-Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 March 1938 Freetown |
| Died | 1990 |
| Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, film director, novelist, poet, diplomat and activist. |
Life
editGaston Bart-Williams was born in Freetown on 3 March 1938 to Sierra Leone Creole parents. He was educated at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown and then Bo School in Bo. He founded the African Youth Cultural Society in 1958, and was Sierra Leone's delegate at the 1959 World Assembly of Youth in Bamako, Mali.[2]
From 1961 to 1963 Bart-Williams studied theatre direction in the UK under Clifford Williams. He won the London Writers' Poetry Award in 1962, and the Michael Karolji International Award in 1963. In 1964 he won a cultural grant from the German London Embassy. He settled in Cologne, where he worked as a freelance writer and film director.[2]
Works
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Plays
edit- A Bouquet of Carnations
- In Praise of Madness
- Uhuru
Films
edit- Zur Nacht, 1967
- Immer nur Mordgeschichten, 1968
References
edit- ^ Gareth Griffiths (2014). African Literatures in English: East and West. Routledge. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-317-89585-5.
- ^ a b Jahn, Janheinz; Schild, Ulla; Seiler, Almut Nordmann (1972), "Bart-Williams, Gaston", Who's who in African literature: biographies, works, commentaries, H. Erdmann, pp. 55-6, ISBN 978-3-7711-0153-4.