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Earl Lovelace
Earl Wilbert Lovelace is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures." As Bernardine Evaristo notes, "Lovelace is...
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- Most writers leave to find support for their literary endeavours elsewhere and this, arguably, shapes the literature, especially after long periods of exile.
- Music critic and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre joins Suzi in the Book Bag to discuss his major ongoing project to document the history of Black music in Britain, and his love for the Trinidadian novelists Sam Selvon and Earl Lovelace.
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