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ANTIGUA & BARBUDA
17°7?N 61°51?W
FAMOUS ANTIGUANS AND BARBUDANS

ANTIGUA Y BARBUDA
The band "Antigua y Barbuda" named themselves after the caribbean islands.
Together with the government they created mural paintings to fight whaling.

JAMAICA KINCAID
Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson) is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. Kincaid's short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and The New Yorker, where her novel Lucy was originally serialized. Her first book, At the Bottom of the River (1983), was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Prix Femina Étranger, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader?s Digest Award.
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Official language(s): English

Capital: Saint John's

Population: 70.000

Currency: East Carribbean Dollar (XCD)