Maureen Warner-Lewis

Maureen Warner-Lewis
Born
Maureen Warner

1943 (age 80–81)
NationalityTrinidadian and Tobagonian
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies
OccupationAcademic
Years active1968–2015
Notable workGuinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture (1991)
Spouse
Rupert Lewis
(m. 1973)
Children2

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.