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Evan Jones (writer) Evan Gordon Newton Jones (29 December 1927 – 18 April 2023) was a Jamaican poet, playwright and screenwriter based in the United Kingdom. He was educated in Jamaica, the United States and England. Jones taught at schools in the United States before moving to England in 1956 and beginning a career as a writer.
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Evan Jones. Writer. 29 December 1927 to 18 April 2023. A Jamaican poet, playwright and screenwriter, who wrote and also rewrote numerous scripts for television and film. While Evan Jones is probably best known for his groundbreaking poem ‘The Song of the Banana Man’ (which was broadcast on the BBC’s Caribbean Voices radio show in 1953 ...
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Evan Gordon Newton Jones (29 December 1927 – 18 April 2023) was a Jamaican poet, playwright and screenwriter based in the United Kingdom. He was educated in Jamaica, the United States and England. Jones taught at schools in the United States before moving to England in 1956 and beginning a career as a writer.
Evan Jones’s career as a writer spanned many genres (including poetry and writings for children, as well as his script and screenwriting work) and engaged with multiple geographies and histories of struggle. He was born in Portland, Jamaica, to an established landowning Jamaican family on his father’s side and his mother was a Quaker missionary and teacher from the US.
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Evan Jones, who has died aged 95, was a screenwriter, playwright, poet, novelist and documentary-maker; born in Jamaica, he was passionate about his homeland. “I have been privileged because I ...
Evan Jones. Writer: Victory. Evan Jones was born on 29 December 1927 in Hector's River, Portland, Jamaica. He was a writer, known for Victory (1981), Modesty Blaise (1966) and Wake in Fright (1971).
