Kendel Hippolyte

Kendel Hippolyte (born 1952) is a St Lucian poet and playwright.

Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, the capital of St Lucia, and was educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

He is actively involved as a playwright and director with the Lighthouse Theatre Company, of which he was a co-founder.

His best known, Drum-maker, uses idiomatic Caribbean language to explore the indigenous local culture in a political context.

He is also the editor of the anthologies Confluence: Nine Saint Lucian Poets (1988) and So Much Poetry in We People (1990).