Jan Carew

{{Short description|Guyanese writer and professor (1920–2012)}} {{use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Jan Carew | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Jan Rynveld Carew | birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|09|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Agricola village, British Guiana | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|12|06|1920|09|24|df=y}} | death_place = Louisville, Kentucky, US | resting_place = Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US (cremated) | occupation = Novelist, playwright, poet, educator | language = | nationality = Guyanese | citizenship = American | education = Berbice High School | alma_mater = Howard University (1945–1946) Western Reserve University (1946–1948) Charles University, Prague (1949–1950) Sorbonne (M.Sc. 1952) | period = | genre =  | subject =  | movement = Postcolonialism, 20th Century | notable_works = ''Black Midas'' (1958) ''The Wild Coast'' (1958) | spouse = Joan Mary Murray (m. 1952) Sylvia Wynter (m. 1958, div. 1971) Joy Gleason (m. 1975) | partner =  | children = Lisa St Aubin de Terán (with Joan Murray) David Christopher Carew (with Sylvia Wynter) Shantoba Eliza Carew (with Joy Gleason) | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = {{URL|https://jancarew.blogspot.com}} | portaldisp =  }}

'''Jan Rynveld Carew''' (24 September 1920 – 6 December 2012)<ref>[https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/12/08/renowned-guyanese-novelist-jan-carew-dead-at-92/ "Renowned Guyanese novelist, Jan Carew, dead at 92"], ''Kaieteur News'', 8 December 2012.</ref> was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, the UK, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada and the United States.

Carew's works, diverse in form and multifaceted, make Jan Carew an important intellectual of the Caribbean world. His poetry and first two novels, ''Black Midas'' and ''The Wild Coast'' (both published in 1958 by Secker & Warburg in London), were significant landmarks of Caribbean literature then attempting to cope with its colonial past and assert its wish for autonomy.

Carew worked with the late Guyana President Cheddi Jagan in the fight for Guianese independence from Britain.<ref>[http://www.thedailyherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=34095%3Aguyanese-writer-jan-carew-dies-&Itemid=5 "Guyanese writer Jan Carew dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620120718/http://www.thedailyherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=34095:guyanese-writer-jan-carew-dies-&Itemid=5 |date=20 June 2015 }}, ''The Daily Herald'', 9 December 2012.</ref> He also played an important part in the Black power movement gaining strength in Britain and North America, publishing reviews and newspapers, producing programmes and plays for radio and television. His scholarly research drove him to question traditional historiographies and the prevailing historical models of the conquest of America. The way he reframed Christopher Columbus as a historical character outside his mythical hagiography became a necessary path in his mind to build anew the Caribbean world on sounder foundations.

==Biography==

===Childhood in British Guiana=== Jan Rynveld Carew was born on 24 September 1920 at Agricola, a coastal village also called Rome, in British Guiana, the South American colony of the British Empire that would become present-day Guyana. He was the middle child and only son of Ethel Robertson and Alan Carew.<ref name=Courier-Journal /> From 1924 to 1926, the Carews lived in the United States but Jan and his elder sister Cicely returned to Guyana after the kidnapping of his younger sister Sheila in New York in 1926. The child would be recovered and reunited with her family in 1927.<ref name=Gleason>Carew, Joy Gleason, and Hazel Waters (eds), ''The Gentle Revolutionary: Essays in Honour of Jan Carew''. ''Race & Class'', vol. 43, no. 3, 2001, p. 81.</ref> Carew's father lived on several occasions in the United States and Canada, working for a while with the Canadian Pacific Railway, and thus crossing the American continent from Halifax to Vancouver. His memories would fuel the imagination of the young Carew.<ref>Birbalsingh, Frank, "Jan Carew Interview", ''Journal of Caribbean Studies'', 1988.</ref>

From 1926 to 1938, he was educated in Guyana, first attending the Agricola Wesleyan School, then the Catholic elementary school, and then Berbice High School, a Canadian Scottish Presbyterian School, in New Amsterdam.<ref name="Gleason" /> He passed his Senior Cambridge Examination in 1938.

After leaving education in 1939, he became a part-time teacher at Berbice High School for Girls,<ref name="Gleason" /> but was called up to the British Army as the Second World War broke out in Europe. He served in the Coast Artillery Regiment until 1943. From 1943 to 1944, he was a customs officer in Georgetown. At that time, he published his first text in the Christmas Annual and was working a lot on his painting and drawing.<ref name="Gleason" /> From 1944 to 1945, he worked at the Price Controls Office in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

Carew felt himself to be part of the Caribbean world that for him included "the island archipelago, the countries of the Caribbean littoral and Guyana, Surinam, and Cayenne."<ref>Carew, Jan, ''The Caribbean Writer and Exile'', p. 2.</ref> He found the paradoxical unity of the Caribbean way of life in the "successive waves of cultural alienation" that shaped the Caribbean frame of mind from "a mosaic of cultural fragments – Amerindian, African, European, Asian."<ref>Carew, Jan, ''The Caribbean Writer and Exile'', p. 1.</ref>

===The university years=== At the age of 25, Carew left Guyana for the United States, where he studied science at Howard University and Western Reserve University (1945–1948), the predecessor of Case Western Reserve University, but left without graduating. Later, he attended Charles University in Prague (1948–1950) and Sorbonne University in Paris.<ref name=Anyaso />

===Exile and later years=== In what he described as his "endless journeyings",<ref name=PeepalTree>[http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=173 Author page at Peepal Tree Press.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116171546/http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=173 |date=16 January 2013 }}</ref> Carew lived at different times in the Netherlands, Mexico, the UK, France, Spain, Ghana, Canada and the United States. In 1951, while in the Netherlands, he was editor of ''De Kim'' (multilingual poetry magazine in Amsterdam). In Britain, he acted alongside Laurence Olivier<ref name=Busby>Margaret Busby, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/21/jan-carew "Jan Carew obituary"], ''The Guardian'', 21 December 2012.</ref> and edited the ''Kensington Post'' in 1953.<ref>"Negro Named Assistant Editor of London Weekly", ''Jet'', 21 July 1955, p. 29: "In London, 33-year-old British Guiana-born Jan Carew was hired as assistant editor on the Kensington Post, a London weekly. The first and only Negro on the staff of an English newspaper, Carew, who attends royal functions in Kensington, borough of the British elite, holds a degree in political economy. During his spare time, he lectures on race relations at London University and reads poetry and short stories on BBC."</ref> He also worked as a broadcaster and writer with the BBC and lectured in race relations at the University of London.<ref>Denis Scott Chabrol, [http://www.demerarawaves.com/index.php/201212085121/Latest/guyanese-literary-icon-jan-carew-dies.html "Guyanese literary icon Jan Carew dies"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210205731/http://www.demerarawaves.com/index.php/201212085121/Latest/guyanese-literary-icon-jan-carew-dies.html |date=10 December 2012 }}, ''Demerara Waves'', 7 December 2012.</ref> He was the first editor of the black-oriented publication ''Magnet News'', launched in London in February 1965.<ref name=Busby />

He always maintained his Caribbean links, and in 1962 served as director of culture in British Guiana under the Jagan administration.<ref name=Busby /> According to York University Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Birbalsingh, "He was a strong supporter of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan and the People's Progressive Party. He was quite fearless when it came to politics."<ref name=Share>[http://sharenews.com/jan-carew-had-a-remarkable-facility-for-narrating-stories/ "Jan Carew ‘had a remarkable facility for narrating stories’"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110045633/http://sharenews.com/jan-carew-had-a-remarkable-facility-for-narrating-stories/ |date=10 January 2015 }}, ''Share'', 12 December 2012.</ref>

Between 1962 and 1966, Carew lived in Jamaica with his then wife Sylvia Wynter, subsequently moving to Canada for some years before settling in the US.<ref name=PeepalTree /> During this period he served as editor of ''African Review'' in 1965, and in 1969 became publisher of ''Cotopax'' (a literary magazine). Carew taught at Princeton, Rutgers, Illinois Wesleyan, Hampshire College, Northwestern and Lincoln Universities and was Emeritus Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University.<ref name="Chronicle" />

Jan Carew died at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, US, at the age of 92,<ref name=Chronicle>[https://archive.today/20130125003632/http://www.guyanachronicleonline.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52717:renown-guyanese-author-jan-carew-dies&catid=4:top-story&Itemid=8 "Renown Guyanese author Jan Carew dies"], ''Guyana Chronicle Online'', 8 December 2012.</ref> survived by his widow Dr. Joy Gleason,<ref name=Kwayana>Eusi Kwayana, [http://www.nathanielturner.com/jancarew.htm "Jan Carew - Mission Within the Mission"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030224430/http://www.nathanielturner.com/jancarew.htm |date=30 October 2018 }}, ''ChickenBones: A Journal''.</ref> his daughters Lisa St Aubin de Terán<ref>Lisa St Aubin de Terán, [https://books.google.com/books?id=I-JSzvmINMUC&dq=%22jan+carew%22+Lisa+St+Aubin+de+Ter%C3%A1n&pg=PT21 ''Memory Maps''], 2002.</ref> and Shantoba Eliza Carew, and his son, David Christopher Carew.<ref name=Courier-Journal>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/louisville/obituary.aspx?n=jan-r-carew&pid=161579917&fhid=6402 Obituary: Jan R. Carew], ''The Courier-Journal'', 9 December 2012.</ref><ref name=Chronicle />

Carew's memoir ''Potaro Dreams: My Youth in Guyana'' was posthumously published in 2014. Envisaged as a first volume, covering the period from birth in 1920 to 1939 when Carew was drawn into the Second World War, the book was described by the author as "the prism" through which he would approach life.<ref>[http://guyanachronicle.com/preserving-our-literary-heritage-potaro-dreams-my-youth-in-guyana-by-jan-carew/ "Preserving Our Literary Heritage: ‘Potaro Dreams, My Youth in Guyana’ by Jan Carew"], ''Guyana Chronicle Online'', 27 June 2014.</ref>

==Activism==

===The black movement and the problem of culture=== Carew was a pioneer in the field of Pan-African Studies.<ref name=Kwayana /> Some of the noted figures to whom Carew has been connected are W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Maurice Bishop, Cheikh Anta Diop, Edward Scobie, John Henrik Clarke, Tsegaye Medhin Gabre, Sterling D. Plumpp and Ivan Van Sertima.

===The invasion of Grenada and the redefinition of colonial history=== In his book ''Grenada: The Hour Will Strike Again'' (1985), published two years after the United States invasion of Grenada, "Carew unearthed and revealed sources of independence in the country itself. [The book] went back to and beyond the struggles of the rebellious African captives, but to the epic resistance of the island's indigenous population."<ref name=Kwayana />

===The environmental issue=== As noted by Eusi Kwayana, Carew "was an environmentalist long before it become fashionable" and made a recommendation to the government of Guyana for an international involvement for a million acres of forestland in Guyana, which inspired an Act on the Guyanese statute book to provide for approximately 360,000 hectares of tropical rainforest for the purposes of research "to make available to Guyana and the International Community systems, methods, and techniques for the sustainable management and utilisation of the multiple resources of the Tropical forest and the conservation of biological diversity and for matters incidental thereto."<ref name=Kwayana />

==Selected literary works== {{lacking ISBN|section|date=March 2024}} Carew wrote novels, short stories, plays, memoirs and other non-fiction, as well as children's stories and books,<ref>Cynthia James (2009), [https://archive.org/stream/KacikeJournal/jamesamerinchildlit_djvu.txt "The Amerindian Presence in a Selection of Children's Literature from Jamaica, Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago in the Anglophone Caribbean 1"]. ''KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology''.</ref> but he remains best known for his first novel, ''Black Midas'' (1958). He was a contributor of reviews, articles, short stories and essays to many periodicals, including ''John O'London's Weekly, Time and Tide, ArtReview, New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, The New York Times, Saturday Review, New Statesman, African Review, The Listener, Journal of African Civilizations, Black Press Review, New Deliberations, Journal of the Association of Caribbean Studies, Black American Literature Forum, Pacific Quarterly,'' and ''Race & Class.'' His many works include:

=== Novels / novellas ===

* ''Black Midas'' (London: Secker & Warburg, 1958; Peepal Tree Press, 2009, {{ISBN|978-1845230951}}); published as ''A Touch of Midas'' in US (New York: Coward, 1958, {{OCLC|oclc=1806950}}) *''The Wild Coast'' (London: Secker & Warburg, 1958; Peepal Tree Press, 2009, {{ISBN|978-1845231101}}) *''The Last Barbarian'' (London: Secker & Warburg, 1961, {{OCLC|oclc=5872031}})<ref>[https://archive.today/20130411022531/http://www.guyanachronicle.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14914:a-look-at-some-of-the-stories-that-made-the-news-back-in-the-day-with-clifford-stanley-&Itemid=12 "Carew says: 'It’s a New York saga with much heat in it'"]. ''Guiana Graphic'', 4 July 1960. Reprinted in Guyana Chronicle Online.</ref> *''Moscow is Not My Mecca'' (London: Secker & Warburg, 1964, {{OCLC|oclc=781971832}}); published as ''Green Winter'' (Stein & Day, 1965, {{OCLC|oclc=933780002}}) *''The Riverman'' – novella (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1987) * ''The Sisters'' – novella (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1987) * ''The Sisters and Manco's Stories'' (Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean Writers, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0333975541}}) *''The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories'' (Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1932511505}})

=== Poetry ===

* ''Streets of Eternity'' (privately printed, 1952, {{OCLC|oclc=993640795}}) * ''Sea Drums in My Blood'' (Trinidad: New Voices,1981, {{OCLC|oclc=11707137}}) * ''Return to Streets of Eternity'' (Smokestack Books, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0992740986}})

=== Juvenile / young adult fiction === * ''Sons of the Flying Wing'' (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970) * ''The Third Gift,'' illus. Leo and Diane Dillon (New York: Little Brown & Co., 1974, {{ISBN|978-0316128476}}) * ''Children of the Sun'', illus. Leo and Diane Dillon (New York: Little Brown & Co., 1980, {{OCLC|oclc=317304859}}) * ''Stranger than Tomorrow: Three Stories of the Future'' (London: Longman, 1976, {{OCLC|oclc=440744211}}) * ''Save the Last Dance for Me, and Other Stories,'' (London: Longman, 1976, {{OCLC|oclc=614575125}}) * ''The Twins of Ilora'' (New York: Little, Brown 1977) * ''The Lost Love, and Other Stories,'' Longman (London: Longman, 1978) * ''The Man Who Came Back,'' Longman (London: Longman, 1979, {{OCLC|oclc=16475260}}) * ''The Cat People,'' Longman (London: Longman, 1979, {{OCLC|oclc=8536408}}) * ''Dark Night, Deep Water'' (London: Longman, 1981, {{OCLC|oclc=10669934}}) * ''Dead Man's Creek: Two Stories'' (London: Longman, 1981, {{OCLC|oclc=10669872}}{{OCLC|oclc=873155438}}) * ''House of Fear: Two Stories'' (London: Longman, 1981, {{OCLC|oclc=8469937}}) * ''Don't Go Near the Water'' (London: Longman, 1982, {{OCLC|oclc=1008048809}}) * ''Time Loop'' (London: Hutchinson Education, 1983, {{OCLC|oclc=16594619}}) * ''Death Comes to the Circus'' (London: Hutchinson Education, 1983, {{OCLC|oclc=656092996}}) * ''Computer Killer'' (London: Hutchinson Education, 1985, {{OCLC|oclc=12501734}})

=== Non-fiction === *''Cry Black Power'' (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970) *''Rope the Sun'' (Third Press, 1973) *(Editor) ''Out of Time,'' illus. Howard Phillips (Cardiff: Adult Basic Education Centre, 1975, {{OCLC|oclc=12144228}}) *''Indian and African Presence in the Americas'' (Atlanta: Georgia State University, 1984, {{OCLC|oclc=869056075}}) *''Grenada: The Hour Will Strike Again'' (Prague: International Organization of Journalists Press, 1985, {{ISBN| 978-0828530811}}) *''Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas and Other Essays'' (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0865430334}}) *''Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean'' (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994, {{ISBN|978-1556522185}}) *''Rape of Paradise: Columbus and the Birth of Racism in the Americas'' (Brooklyn: A & B Publishers, 1994; Seaburn Publishing, 2006, {{ISBN|978-1592320936}}) *''Potaro Dreams: My Youth in Guyana'' (Hansib Publications, 2014, {{ISBN|978-1906190644}}) *''Episodes in My Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew'' — edited by Joy Gleason Carew (Peepal Tree Press, 2015, {{ISBN|978-1845232450}})

=== Essays ===

* "Being Black in Belorussia is Like Being from Mars" (''The New York Times'', 19 September 1971) * "Look Bwana, in East Africa you carry a bicycle on the bus, eat crocodile tail and get to know the people who married the wind" (''The New York Times'', 24 October 1971) * "The Caribbean writer and exile" (''Journal of Black Studies'', Vol. 8, No. 4, 1978, pp. 453–475) * "The fusion of African and Amerindian folk myths" (''Caribbean Quarterly'', Vol. 23, No. 1, 1977, pp. 7–21 and ''Bim'', Vol. 16, No. 64, 1978, pp. 241–257) * "Estevanico: The African Explorer" (''Journal of African Civilizations'', Vol. 3. No. 1, April 1981, pp. 86–99, {{OCLC|oclc=52742691}}) * "Columbus and the origins of racism in the Americas: part one" (''Race & Class'', April 1988, Vol. 29: pp. 1–19) * "Columbus and the origins of racism in the Americas: part two" (''Race & Class'', April 1988, Vol. 30: pp. 33–57, {{OCLC|oclc=57376471}}) * "United We Stand! Joint Struggles of Native Americans and African Americans in the Columbian Era" (''Monthly Review'', Vol. 44, No. 3: July–August 1992) * "Columbus: a harbinger of slavery and racism" (''The New York Amsterdam News'', 11 July 1992, pp. 2 & 29) * "Moorish Culture-Bringers: Bearers of Enlightenment" (in Ivan Van Sertima, ed., ''Golden Age of the Moor'', New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1992, pp. 248–277, {{OCLC|oclc=945916328}}) * "Culture and Rebellion" (''Race & Class'': Special issue – Black America: the street and the campus, Vol. 35, No. 1, July – September 1993) * "Jonestown revisited" (Eusi Kwayana, ''A New Look At Jonestown: Dimensions from a Guyanese Perspective'', Carib House, 2016, {{OCLC|oclc=1013544834}})<ref>Jan Carew, [https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=61391 "Jonestown Revisited"]. Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple.</ref> * "The Ivory trade: The cruelest trade of all, white gold" * "The Synergen project" * "The Amaranth project"

=== Radio plays === * 1957: ''The River Man,'' BBC<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3f35cd7ed5884386b3a38c19eb639881 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=2 November 1957 }}</ref> * 1958: ''The Legend of Nameless Mountain,'' BBC<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/43480072d379452cbd0dc88e88e0be85 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=17 August 1958 }}</ref> * 1958: ''Anancy and Tiger,'' BBC<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2c5584e400dd4f9c95b21c71a7230810 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=22 November 1958 }}</ref> * 1960: ''The University of Hunger'' (with Sylvia Wynter) BBC<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e0315065e4ab463786eea8c92c42b977 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=17 August 1960 }}</ref> * 1968: ''Song of the Riverman,'' BBC Radio 3<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/819999aff60344f4a3eba5c7abcde24b |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=25 October 1968 }}</ref>

=== Television plays ===

* 1961: ''The Big Pride'' (with Sylvia Wynter), ITV/Associated Television<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q123784093|title=Drama '61: The Big Pride (28 May 1961)}}</ref> * 1961: ''The Day of the Fox,'' Associated Television<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 December 1961 |title=Affluence No Help |pages=12 |work=The Daily Telegraph |issue=33171 |url=https://www.thetelegraph.co.uk/ |access-date=1 April 2022 |archive-date=5 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705140850/http://www.thetelegraph.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> (starring Sammy Davis Jr.) * 1963: ''Exile from the Sun,'' Associated Television (never performed)<ref name="Busby" /> * 1963: ''The Baron of South Boulevard,'' Associated Television * 1963: ''No Gown for Peter,'' Associated Television * 1963: ''The Raiders,'' Associated Television * 1963: ''The Smugglers,'' Associated Television * 1963: ''A Roof of Stars,'' Associated Television * 1963: ''The Conversion of Tiho,'' Associated Television * 1969: ''Behind God's Back,'' Canadian Broadcasting Company

=== Stage plays === * ''Black Midas'' – screenplay * 1966: ''The University of Hunger'' (three-act) – produced in Georgetown, Guyana, at Georgetown Theatre * 1967: ''Gentlemen Be Seated –'' produced in Belgrade, Yugoslavia * 1970: ''Black Horse, Pale Rider'' (two-act) – University of the West Indies, Extra-Mural Department * 1975: ''Behind God's Back –'' Carifesta, Volume 2 * 1987: ''The Peace Play''

==Selected awards== Amongst the many awards that Carew received during his lifetime, of note are:

* 1964: ''Daily Mirror'' Award for Best Play (for ''The Big Pride'') * 1974: Illinois Arts Council award for fiction (for the short story "Ti-Zek") * 1974: American Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence (for ''The Third Gift)'' * 1977: Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry,<ref name="Share" /> * 1979: Pushcart prize (for the essay "The Caribbean writer and exile") * 1985: The Walter Rodney Memorial Award from the Association of Caribbean Studies * 1985: National Film Institute Award (for screenplay of ''Black Midas)'' * 1990: The Hansib Publication Award * 1991: The Franz Fanon Freedom Award<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 December 1991 |title=Veteran Pan-African historian to be honored in Brooklyn |pages=8 |work=New York Amsterdam News |url=https://amsterdamnews.com |access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref> * 1998: The Paul Robeson Award (for "living a life of art and politics") * 2002: The Clark-Atlanta University Nkyinkyim Award * 2003: The Caribbean-Canadian Lifetime Creative Award from the Caribbean Canadian Literary Exposition<ref name="Anyaso">Hilary Hurd Anyaso, [http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2013/01/obituary-jan-carew.html "Jan Carew, Leader in Black Studies, Dies at 92"], Northwestern University, 10 January 2013.</ref><ref>Lauren Caruba, [http://dailynorthwestern.com/2013/01/10/campus/northwestern-african-american-studies-professor-noted-novelist-dies-at-92/ "Northwestern African American studies professor, noted novelist dies at 92"], ''The Daily Northwestern'', 10 January 2013.</ref> * 2008: Independent Publisher Bronze Prize for Multicultural Fiction (for ''The Guyanese Wanderer'')

==Further reading== * Carew, Joy Gleason, and Hazel Waters (ed.), ''The Gentle Revolutionary: Essays in Honour of Jan Carew''. ''Race & Class'', vol. 43, n° 3, January 2002 * Jan Carew interviewed by Maureen Warner-Lewis, Prague, 1984, ''Journal of West Indian Literature'', vol. 2, n° 1, December 1987, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23019590 pp. 37–40]

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== * [https://jancarew.blogspot.co.uk/ Jan Carew website] * [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/carew-jan.php Plays by Jan Carew] * Al Creigton, [https://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news02/ns2050510.htm "Jan Carew: the gentle revolutionary"], Arts on Sunday, ''Stabroek News'', 5 May 2002. * N. D. Williams, [https://n-d-williams.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/jan-carew-rewind-last-hurrah.html "Jan Carew: Rewind & Last Hurrah"], 5 September 2007. * David Austin, [https://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/09/27/features/the-gentle-revolutionary-jan-carew-at-90/ "The gentle revolutionary: Jan Carew at 90"], ''Stabroek News'', 27 September 2010. * Joy Gleason Carew, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121209021722/http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/interviews/2011/12/16/black-midas-in-moscow/ "Black Midas in Moscow – Conversations with Jan Carew"], SX Salon, ''Small Axe'', 16 December 2011. * Eusi Kwayana, [http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/features/12/10/remembering-jan-carew-september-1920-to-december-2012/ "Remembering Jan Carew (September 1920 – December 2012"], ''Stabroek News'', 10 December 2012. * Literary archival documents by Carew are held at the [https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0140/c03367 General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection], Princeton Library, Special Collections.

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