# Archie Lindo

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{{Short description|Jamaican photographer and playwright (1908–1990)}}
'''Archie Lindo''' [OD](/source/Order_of_Distinction_(Jamaica)) (20 January 1908 – 2 April 1990) was a [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica)n photographer, actor, author,  playwright, and radio show broadcaster.<ref name=obit>[https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1990-04-04/ ''The Daily Gleaner''], 4 April 1990.</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20131025/ent/ent1.html | title=Archie Lindo covered, produced the arts| date=25 October 2013|author=Michael Reckord|work=The Gleaner}}</ref><ref name="Lindo1945">{{cite book|author=Archie Lindo|title=My Heart was Singing: Poems and Short Stories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st_jAQAACAAJ|year=1945|publisher=B.W.I., College Press}}</ref> He was one of the most successful Jamaican playwrights of the 1940s.<ref name="MordecaiMordecai2001">{{cite book|author1=Martin Mordecai|author2=Pamela Mordecai|title=Culture and Customs of Jamaica|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313305344|url-access=registration|quote=archie lindo.|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30534-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313305344/page/168 168]–}}</ref> His photographs are part of the [National Gallery of Jamaica](/source/National_Gallery_of_Jamaica) collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/explorations-iv-masculinities-gallery-3-the-male-body-as-icon-precarious-masculinities/archie-lindo-irish-moss-gatherersrgb/#main|title=Archie Lindo – Irish Moss Gatherers(rgb)|date=December 3, 2015}}</ref> He received the Silver [Musgrave Medal](/source/Musgrave_Medal) from the Institute of Jamaica as well as an [Order of Distinction](/source/Order_of_Distinction_(Jamaica)) from the government.<ref name=two/> He was also an art critic for ''The Star'' from 1960.<ref name=obit/>

Lindo was a member of the Poetry League of Jamaica and was a columnist for ''[The Gleaner](/source/The_Gleaner_(newspaper))''.<ref name=two>{{cite web|url=http://gleaner-jamaica.com/gleaner/20131101/ent/ent3.html|title=Islandwide by road, airwaves - Archie Lindo produces plays, programmes|author=Michael Reckord|date=1 November 2013|work=gleaner-jamaica.com|accessdate=6 July 2019}}</ref> Left in charge of Jamaica's only radio station at the time, ZQI, he broadcast local programming including [Louise Bennett](/source/Louise_Bennett) and the [Jamaica Military Band](/source/Jamaica_Military_Band). The radio station was succeeded by [RJR](/source/RJR_94_FM).<ref name=two/>

==Bibliography==
*''Under the Skin'', a play<ref name="ArnoldRodríguez-Luis2001">{{cite book|author1=Albert James Arnold|author2=Julio Rodríguez-Luis|author3=J. Michael Dash|title=A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uH_4yAahYkC&dq=archie+lindo&pg=PA297|date=1 January 2001|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=90-272-3448-5|page=297}}</ref>
*''The Maroon'', a play

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