Lorna Goodison
Born on August 1, 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica, Lorna Goodison is primarily a poet along with a short story writer and a painter. Her poems focus on mixing of cultures, women’s concerns and effects of colonization. When she was a teenager, she began to publish her poetry anonymously in Jamaica Gleaner.
Her first collection of poems, [...]
Wilson Harris
Born into a middle class family on March 24, 1921 in Guyana (then under the British rule), Wilson Harris first became friends with poetry and moved on to become a world famous novelist and essayist. After studying at Queen’s College in Georgetown from 1934 to 1939, he became a government surveyor (1942-58). It was as [...]
Nayantara Sahgal
Born in British India on May 10, 1927 in Allahabad, Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English whose fiction has received worldwide recognition. She is the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. During the emergency imposed by her first cousin, Indira Gandhi, she stood up against the totalitarian government, giving evidence of [...]
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad. He was educated at Queen’s Royal College, Trinidad and University College, Oxford. He worked briefly for BBC as a writer and editor. He was knighted in 1989. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He lives in Wiltshire, England.
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