Postcolonial Writers
(Note: We are working on creating an individual page for each author. Eventually, the author links on this page will take you to a dedicated page for each author. This is an ever growing list of postcolonial writers. Please feel free to suggest any authors that we might have missed)
Africa
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Osonye Tess Onwueme
Christopher Okigbo (Nigeria)
Ben Okri (Nigeria/UK)
Femi Osofisan (Nigeria)
Sembene Ousmane (Senegal)
Ferdinand Oyono (Cameroon)
Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria; Ogoni)
Wole Soyinka
Miriam Tlali
Amos Tutuola
Yvonne Vera
Zoe Wicomb
Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie
Caribbean
Edward “Kamau” Brathwaite
Erna Brodber
Wilson Harris
Hubert Harrison
C. L. R. James
Jamaica Kincaid
George Lamming
Earl Lovelace
Shani Mootoo
V. S. Naipaul
Lakshmi Persaud
Caryl Phillips
Jean Rhys
Leone Ross
Samuel Selvon
Derek Walcott
South Asia (Including the diaspora)
Ahmed Ali
Mulk Raj Anand
Kamala Das
Anita Desai
Kiran Desai
Tanuja Desai Hidier
Nissim Ezekiel
Chitra Fernando
Zulfikar Ghose
James Goonewardene
Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistan)
Jhumpa Lahiri (India)
Kamala Markandaya (India)
Meera Mahadevan
Basavaraj Naikar
Mukul Kesavan
Rohinton Mistry
Michael Ondaatje
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Nayantara Sahgal
Sara Suleri