Samuel Selvon (1923–1994)
Autor de The Lonely Londoners
Sobre El Autor
Largely self-educated, Selvon was first a poet, later a journalist, and then a professional writer. In 1946 he became an editor at the Guardian Weekly in Trinidad. He left for England in 1950, where he wrote and published his first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952). This novel depicts the struggle of mostrar más the protagonist, a newly married Indian peasant, to adapt to life in a suburban area. In Turn Again Tiger (1958), a sequel to his highly successful first novel, the protagonist of A Brighter Sun returns to his community with a deeper sense of place. Both novels explore his relations to his origins and the various layers of Trinidadian society. Moses Ascending (1975) is a humorous satire on the situation of the West Indian in London. Although his roots are in the nineteenth-century novel, Selvon has created a personal literary language out of the fusion of standard English with Creole folk language, just as he has joined the techniques of European fiction to the West Indian rhythms. Though he now lives in Calgary, Canada, Selvon continues to write about West Indians with humor and sensitivity and tries to communicate his view that all West Indians---in spite of racial diversity---have a common identity. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Samuel Selvon
I Hear Thunder 1 copia
One Hundred Modern Poems 1 copia
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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Selvon, Samuel Dickson
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1923-05-20
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1994-04-16
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Lugar de nacimiento
- San Fernando, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
- Lugares de residencia
- Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (birth)
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (death)
Canada
London, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer
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