Roger Mais

Roger Corn ( born August 11, 1905 in Kingston, † June 21, 1955 ) was a Jamaican writer, poet, photojournalist and painter. In 1978, he posthumously received the "Order of Jamaica" for his contribution to Jamaica's political development.

Corn was an important representative of the rise sent national movements, the " National Movement" of Jamaica in the 1930s. After he had written primarily remained unpublished poems and short stories, he began to describe the inner turmoil and hopelessness of the emancipated black population of Jamaica during the Second World War from 1938. In 1944 corn because of its opposite Winston Churchill's policy speech critical " Now we know" for half a year in Spanish Town jail. Then only followed his trilogy "The Hills Were Joyful Together" (1953), " Brother Man" (1954) and " Black Lightning " (1955) that made him internationally known.

Roger Maize is widely regarded as the father of modern Caribbean literature. As he lined up his literary work to the need for a national and cultural identity, he turned against the hegemonic literary tradition of Europe and placed his artistic work in the service of exploring his own people and its culture, with the goal of its own, authentic as possible to find language.

Corn worked before his career as a writer as a photographer for the daily newspaper Jamaica Gleaner and began in the 1950s with painting. His paintings can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the National Gallery of Jamaica.