Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (also spelled Vasil Bykov, Belarusian: Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, Russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков; born June 19, 1924; died June 22, 2003) was a Belarusian individual who opposed the government and worked as a politician. He also served as a junior lieutenant and wrote books about World War II, including novels and short stories. He was an important person in Soviet and Belarusian literature and ideas about society.
Glenville Lovell is a Barbadian writer, dancer, novelist, and playwright. Lovell was born in a small house in Parish Land, Christ Church, Barbados. He grew up hearing stories from sugar cane workers.
George William Lamming OCC (8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a Barbadian writer who wrote novels, essays, and poems. He received great praise for his 1953 first book, In the Castle of My Skin. He also worked as a teacher at universities, including as a distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University.
Odimumba Kwamdela, born J. Ashton Brathwaite (September 11, 1942 – January 16, 2019), was a writer from Barbados. He wrote 14 books, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and created three spoken word albums with music.
Anthony Kellman (born April 24, 1955) is a poet, novelist, and musician from Barbados. In 1990, the British publisher Peepal Tree Press released his first complete book of poetry, Watercourse. This book was supported by the late Martiniquan poet Edouard Glissant and helped start Kellman’s career as an international writer.
He was born in Barbados and moved to New York in 1977. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University. He graduated from Baruch College of CUNY with a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in quantitative economics in 1985.
James Bernard De Courcey Emtage was born on February 14, 1902, and passed away on August 12, 1995. He was a writer from Barbados who used the name J. B.
Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados and received his early education there. In 1945, he traveled to Cambridge University in England, where he studied economics. After completing his studies, he taught in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, for several years before returning to England in 1953.
Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: মূহাম্মদ ইউনূস; born June 28, 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist and leader. He helped create the idea of giving small loans to poor people, called microcredit and microfinance. For this work, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Rizia Rahman was born on December 28, 1939, and passed away on August 16, 2019. She was a writer from Bangladesh who wrote many novels and short stories. Her work included different types of stories.