Archie Lindo OD (20 January 1908 – 2 April 1990) was a

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n photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster.''The Daily Gleaner''
4 April 1990. He was one of the most successful Jamaican playwrights of the 1940s. His photographs are part of the National Gallery of Jamaica collection. He received the Silver

Musgrave Medal The Musgrave Medal is an annual award by the Institute of Jamaica in recognition of achievement in art, science, and literature.Webster, Valerie J. (2000), ''Awards, Honors & Prizes, Volume 2'', Gale Group, , p. 447. Originally conceived in 1889 ...

from the Institute of Jamaica as well as an

Order of Distinction The Order of Distinction (OD) is a national order in the Jamaican honours system. It is the sixth in order of precedence of the Orders of Societies of Honour, which were instituted by an Act of Parliament (''The National Honours and Awards Ac ...

from the government. He was also an art critic for ''The Star'' from 1960. Lindo was a member of the Poetry League of Jamaica and was a columnist for ''

The Gleaner ''The Gleaner'' is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Western Hemisphere. Original ...

''. Left in charge of Jamaica's only radio station at the time, ZQI, he broadcast local programming including

Louise Bennett Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, actress, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the prac ...

and the

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. The radio station was succeeded by RJR.

Bibliography

*''Under the Skin'', a play *''The Maroon'', a play

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