Maureen Warner-Lewis | |
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| Born | Maureen Warner 1943 (age 80–81) |
| Nationality | Trinidadian and Tobagonian |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Years active | 1968–2015 |
| Notable work | Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture (1991) |
| Spouse |
Rupert Lewis (m. 1973) |
| Children | 2 |
Maureen Warner-Lewis (born 1943) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian academic whose career focused on the linguistic heritage and unique cultural traditions of the African diaspora of the Caribbean. Her area of focus has been to recover the links between African cultures and Caribbean cultures. She has been awarded multiple prizes for her works, including two Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Awards, the Gold Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica, and she was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame of Tobago.