John Edgar Colwell Hearne

John Edgar Colwell Hearne ( born February 4, 1926 in Montreal, Canada, † December 12, 1994 in Stony Hill, Jamaica) was a writer, journalist and teacher.

Life and work

John Hearne was born to Jamaican parents in Montreal, Canada. With two years he came to Jamaica. where he attended Jamaica College in Kingston. After his military service in the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War, he studied English and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

He has taught as an instructor at the University of London and from 1950 to 1952 at a school in Jamaica. At the time, he also worked as a journalist. For several years he toured Europe then (temporarily together with the writer Roger corn), but returned in 1957 back to Jamaica. He also what employees of the University of the West Indies in Mona.

His first publication was in 1955, the novel Voices under the Window (German: Voices under the window, 1956). She plays in Jamaica in the late forties or early fifties, and told in the context of a riot like a man who has grown up in privileged surroundings, decides to be a politician for the underprivileged to use. His other novels and stories which he published from 1956 to 1961, playing on the imaginary island Cayuna that is very reminiscent of Jamaica. He treated there issues of topical and local relevance such as the construction of the bauxite industry, the Cuban Revolution or the beginning of the Rastafari movement.

In the late sixties and early seventies, he co-wrote with journalist Morris Cargill a series of three thrillers under the pseudonym " John Morris " playing in the security establishment.

In 1985, his last story, The Sure Salvation, published, playing on a slave ship in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Works

• Voices under the Window, London 1955; Voices under the window, Munich 1956, translated by Reinhard Baumgart
• Stranger at the Gate, London 1956; The Other, Munich 1957, transferred from the English by Hans Egon Gerlach
• The Eye of the Storm, Boston 1958
• The Faces of Love, London 1959; Faces of Love, Munich 1959
• Autumn Equinox, London 1959
• Land of the Living, London 1961
• The Sure Salvation, New York 1982; The paradise in mind. Slavery and rebellion on the " Sure Salvation", Zurich 2006

Under the pseudonym John Morris (along with Morris Cargill )

• Fever Grass, Kingston, 1969; Trip with hash, 1971, translated from English by Heinz Kausträter ( Shocker Volume 94 )
• The Candywine Development, Kingston, 1970; Deadly sting, 1970 (1971: Shocker band 105)
• The Checkerboard Caper, New Jersey in 1971