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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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)...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

"became a glittering showcase for a generation of writers, including Sam Selvon and George Lamming, who had made London their second home. Established...

American film producer and writer; in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2007) Sam Selvon, Trinidanian writer; in Trinidad (d. 1994) Betty Willis, American graphic...

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

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

has read on stage with some of Canada's important writers, including Sam Selvon, Rohinton Mistry, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, George Elliot Clarke, Lawrence...

(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...