Evan Jones

Evan Jones 29 December 1927 18 April 2023 was a Jamaican screenwriter playwright poet and novelist He is best known for his screenplay for Wake in Fright 1971 a Palme dOr nominated 2009 Cannes Classic championed by Martin Scorsese it is one of only two films to ever be presented twice at the festival Jones was the recipient of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for The Fight Against Slavery 1975 a limited series created and presented by him for the BBC He is also the writer of Madhouse on Castle Street 1963 a television play which featured the acting debut of Bob Dylan Over the course of his career Jones collaborated with a number of notable figures of twentieth century cinema including Joseph Losey Harold Pinter John Huston Michael Caine Dirk Bogarde Spike Milligan Peter Sellers Sylvester Stallone and Max von Sydow Jones archive is held by the Bodleian Library at his alma mater the University of Oxford who displayed his poetry as part of their 20245 exhibition Write Cut Rewrite