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{{Infobox person
| name               = Gaston Bart-Williams
| birth_date         = 3 March 1938
| birth_place        = Freetown
| death_date         = 1990
| nationality        = Sierra Leonean
| occupation         = journalist, film director, novelist, poet, diplomat and activist.
}}

'''Gaston Bart-Williams''' (1938-1990) was a Sierra Leonean journalist, film director, novelist, poet, diplomat and activist. He lived and worked mainly in Germany.<ref name="Griffiths2014">{{cite book|author=Gareth Griffiths|title=African Literatures in English: East and West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S2GPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA248|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-89585-5|page=248}}</ref>

==Life==
Gaston Bart-Williams was born in [[Freetown]] on 3 March 1938 to [[Sierra Leone Creole]] parents. He was educated at the [[Prince of Wales School (Freetown, Sierra Leone)|Prince of Wales School]] in Freetown and then [[Bo School]] in [[Bo, Sierra Leone|Bo]]. He founded the [[African Youth Cultural Society]] in 1958, and was Sierra Leone's delegate at the 1959 [[World Assembly of Youth]] in [[Bamako, Mali]].<ref name=Jahn>{{citation|title=Who's who in African literature: biographies, works, commentaries|first1=Janheinz|last1=Jahn|author-link1=Janheinz Jahn|first2=Ulla|last2=Schild|first3=Almut Nordmann|last3=Seiler|publisher=H. Erdmann|year=1972|isbn=978-3-7711-0153-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinafrican00jahn/page/55 55-6]|contribution=Bart-Williams, Gaston|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinafrican00jahn/page/55}}.</ref>

From 1961 to 1963 Bart-Williams studied theatre direction in the UK under [[Clifford Williams (actor)|Clifford Williams]]. He won the London Writers' Poetry Award in 1962, and the Michael Karolji International Award in 1963. In 1964 he won a cultural grant from the German London Embassy. He settled in [[Cologne]], where he worked as a freelance writer and film director.<ref name=Jahn/>

==Works==

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==Plays==
* ''A Bouquet of Carnations''
* ''In Praise of Madness''
* ''Uhuru''

===Films===
* ''Zur Nacht'', 1967
* ''Immer nur Mordgeschichten'', 1968

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|8035769}}

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