Earl Lovelace

Patricia Murray

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.1: Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin), Jak Peake (University of Essex), Abigail Ward (University of Nottingham)

Dates

Born 13 Jul 1935
Activity 1955-ongoing

Places

Born in Trinidad
Active in Trinidad; United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Story-writer

Resources

Life and Work

Earl Lovelace is a novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayist and journalist. A champion of the Black Power movement and the importance of “folk” culture, Lovelace is the best known and most admired chronicler of post-independence Trinidad and Tobago. His novel The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979) is celebrated for its development of Creole aesthetics based on the local arts of Carnival and calypso and his novel, Salt (1996), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book in 1997.

Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, in the North East corner of Trinidad, in 1935. From the age of three he went to live with his maternal grandparents in Tobago and attended Scarborough Methodist Primary School.…

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Citation: Murray, Patricia. "Earl Lovelace". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2796, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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