
Sam Selvon
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 30 years ago |
Born | San Fernando |
Trinidad And Tobago | |
Died | Piarco International Airport |
Trinidad And Tobago | |
Job | Journalist |
Novelist | |
Date of birth | May 20,1923 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Spous | Draupadi Persaud |
Date of died | April 16,1994 |
Movies/Shows | Pressure |
Education | Naparima College |
Nationality | Canadian |
Trinidadian | |
Children | Two daughters and two sons |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 638109 |
Brighter Sun
Moses Ascending
Turn again Tiger
Moses migrating
Ways of Sunlight
Those who eat the cascadura
An island is a world
The housing lark
Plains of Caroni
Eldorado West One
Foreday Morning: Selected Prose 1946-1986
Highway in the Sun and Other Plays
A Drink of Water
The Lonely Londoners
Moses Ascending
Turn again Tiger
Moses migrating
Ways of Sunlight
Those who eat the cascadura
An island is a world
The housing lark
Plains of Caroni
Eldorado West One
Foreday Morning: Selected Prose 1946-1986
Highway in the Sun and Other Plays
A Drink of Water
The Lonely Londoners
Sam Selvon Life story
Samuel Selvon was a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or "nation language", for narrative as well as dialogue.