Samuel Selvon (20 May 1923 – 16 April 1994) was a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners...

The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication was one of the first to focus on poor, working-class black people...

Naipaul and Derek Walcott as well as the novelists Edwidge Danticat and Sam Selvon. Banishment in the Torah Ban (law) Defection Echols County, Georgia, the...

period including C. L. R. James, James Baldwin and Darcus Howe as well as Sam Selvon, Andrew Salkey and John La Rose the founding members of the Caribbean...

(1943–) Arundhati Roy (1961–) Jean Rhys (1890–1979) Salman Rushdie (1947–) Sam Selvon (1923–1994) Ousmane Sembene (1923–2007) Bapsi Sidhwa (1938–) Zadie Smith...

Rampersad Kenneth Ramchand Rabi Maharaj Harold Sonny Ladoo Shani Mootoo Sam Selvon Bhaskar Sunkara Kevin Jared Hosein Awadh Jaggernath Samuel Badree Denesh...

Norville, Oscar James and Frank Singuineau. Co-written by Ové with Samuel Selvon, it is hailed as the UK's first Black dramatic feature-length film, and...

features often in novels by Mark Billingham and in The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon. Sherlock Holmes once said that he purchased his Stradivarius from "a...

Bones and My Flute Edgar Mittelholzer 1955  Guyana The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon 1956  Trinidad and Tobago  England The Guide R. K. Narayan 1958  India...

English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje The Lonely Londoners (1956) by Sam Selvon Arrow Of God (1964) by Chinua Achebe The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret...

footballer (d. 1988) 1923 – Edith Fellows, American actress (d. 2011) 1923 – Sam Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (d. 1994) 1924 – David Chavchavadze, English-American...

 France Richard Howard (US) V. S. Naipaul  Trinidad and Tobago/ England Sam Selvon (Trinidad and Tobago) Vasko Popa  Yugoslavia Lasse Söderberg (Sweden)...

UK theatre tour in 2023. The Lonely Londoners (based on the novel by Sam Selvon), Jermyn Street Theatre, 2024. Death Of England:Closing time at the National...

and essential one. Sir Vidia Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, C. L. R. James, Sam Selvon, Derek Walcott, and too many others to list here, have set a very high...

author published in the previous year. Past recipients are W. P. Kinsella, Sam Selvon, Pauline Gedge, Aritha van Herk, Mary Walters Riskin, Helen Forrester...

encounters Cirilla of Cintra and calls her the Lady of the Lake. In Sam Selvon's 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners, central character Moses Aloesa meets...

"Hallowed be thy name" is replaced with "Harrow Road be thy name." In Sam Selvon's 1956 Lonely Londoners, the newly migrated Tanty lives in Harrow Road...

joins a line of Indian-Trinidadian writers, including V.S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon, who have grappled with the country's history of indentured labour" (Tweet)...

Sancho (c. 1729–1780) June Sarpong (born 1977) Mary Seacole (1805–1881) Sam Selvon (1923–1994) Kadija Sesay (born 1962) Warsan Shire (born 1988) Andra Simons...

1961. Khan's close friend, Sam Selvon, had encouraged him to submit it to MacGibbon & Kee who had previously published Selvon's Ways of Sunlight in 1957...

include books by C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Timothy Mo, Sam Selvon, Walter Mosley, Henry Louis Gates, Lawrence Scott and Simi Bedford. Busby's...

(2006) set in grand houses surrounding a fictional communal garden. Sam Selvon's 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners set in Notting Hill portrays the lives...

argues that during the past fifty years Asian and Black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary...

many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon, as well as editing several significant cultural publications. His seminal...

Swanzy's tenure include George Lamming, Edgar Mittelholzer, Shake Keane, Sam Selvon, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Ian McDonald, Gloria Escoffery...

recommendation of Sam Selvon. Khan had met Selvon in 1941 when Khan's sister, Betty, and Selvon's brother, Dennis, were married. Khan and Selvon worked together...

by the Trinidadian novelist and playwright Samuel Selvon. Selvon, who also published as Sam Selvon, had confirmed his reputation with the 1956 novel The...

more than 30 years later. Meanwhile, male Guyanese writers, such as Sam Selvon, George Lamming, E. R. Braithwaite, and V. S. Naipaul flourished. The...

1968) Roger Robinson Monique Roffey (born 1965) Marina Salandy-Brown Sam Selvon (1923–1994) Raffique Shah (born 1946) Frances-Anne Solomon (born 1966)...

Writers Talk, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0415345675 Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1988, ISBN 0894102389 Reading...