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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rampersad Kenneth Ramchand Rabi Maharaj Harold Sonny Ladoo Shani Mootoo Sam Selvon Bhaskar Sunkara Kevin Jared Hosein Awadh Jaggernath Samuel Badree Denesh...
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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...
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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...
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France Richard Howard (US) V. S. Naipaul Trinidad and Tobago/ England Sam Selvon (Trinidad and Tobago) Vasko Popa Yugoslavia Lasse Söderberg (Sweden)...
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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...
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(1943–) Arundhati Roy (1961–) Jean Rhys (1890–1979) Salman Rushdie (1947–) Sam Selvon (1923–1994) Ousmane Sembene (1923–2007) Bapsi Sidhwa (1938–) Zadie Smith...
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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)...
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footballer (d. 1988) 1923 – Edith Fellows, American actress (d. 2011) 1923 – Sam Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (d. 1994) 1924 – David Chavchavadze, English-American...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Writers Talk, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-0415345675 Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1988, ISBN 0894102389 Reading...
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author published in the previous year. Past recipients are W. P. Kinsella, Sam Selvon, Pauline Gedge, Aritha van Herk, Mary Walters Riskin, Helen Forrester...
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"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...
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many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon, as well as editing several significant cultural publications. His seminal...
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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...
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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...
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"became a glittering showcase for a generation of writers, including Sam Selvon and George Lamming, who had made London their second home. Established...
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American film producer and writer; in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2007) Sam Selvon, Trinidanian writer; in Trinidad (d. 1994) Betty Willis, American graphic...
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Swanzy's tenure include George Lamming, Edgar Mittelholzer, Shake Keane, Sam Selvon, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Ian McDonald, Gloria Escoffery...
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more than 30 years later. Meanwhile, male Guyanese writers, such as Sam Selvon, George Lamming, E. R. Braithwaite, and V. S. Naipaul flourished. The...
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has read on stage with some of Canada's important writers, including Sam Selvon, Rohinton Mistry, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, George Elliot Clarke, Lawrence...
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(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...
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