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Kendel Hippolyte (born 1952) is an award-winning St Lucian poet and playwright. ==Biography== Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, the capital of St Lucia, and was educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Kendel Hippolyte Biography )〕 He worked as a teacher at St Mary's College in Vigie, Castries, and the Sir Arthur Lewis College at the Morne. He is actively involved as a playwright and director with the Lighthouse Theatre Company, of which he was a co-founder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Kendel Hippolyte )〕 He has written eight plays. His best known, ''Drum-maker'', uses idiomatic Caribbean language to explore the indigenous local culture in a political context. He has published several collections of verse, characterized by its modernist free style. He is also the editor of the anthologies ''Confluence: Nine Saint Lucian Poets'' (1988) and ''So Much Poetry in We People'' (1990). In 2000, he was awarded the St. Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for Contribution to the Arts. In 2013 he won the poetry category of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for his 2012 poetry collection ''Fault Lines''.〔Tanya Batson-Savage, ("Kendel Hippolyte, Monique Roffey and Rupert Roopnaraine Vie for Bocas Prize 2013" ), Susumba, 18 March 2013.〕 He is married to poet Jane King. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kendel Hippolyte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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