|
Caribbean Voices
''Caribbean Voices'' was a radio programme broadcast by the BBC World Service from Bush House in London, England, between 1943 and 1958. It is considered "the programme in which West Indian literary talents first found their voice, in the early 1950s." ''Caribbean Voices'' nurtured many writers who went on to wider acclaim, including Samuel Selvon, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, John Figueroa, Andrew Salkey, Michael Anthony, Edgar Mittelholzer, Sylvia Wynter, and others. History ''Caribbean Voices'' evolved out of the BBC’s first programme for Caribbean listeners, ''Calling the West Indies'', launched in 1939 to give West Indian soldiers in the British army an opportunity to connect with family at home during the Second World War by reading letters on air to family at home in the Caribbean. Jamaican writer and activist Una Marson was hired in 1941 to work on the original programme, and by the following year she had become the West Indies producer, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Enriques Sam Sevlon Caribbean Voices 1952
Pauline may refer to: Religion *An adjective referring to St Paul the Apostle or a follower of his doctrines *An adjective referring to St Paul of Thebes, also called St Paul the First Hermit *An adjective referring to the Paulines (other), Paulines, various religious orders associated with these two saints, or a member of such an order *Cappella Paolina, or Pauline Chapel, a chapel in the Vatican *Pauline Christianity, the Christianity associated with the beliefs and doctrines espoused by St Paul the Apostle *Pauline epistles, the thirteen or fourteen letters in the New Testament traditionally believed to have been written by St Paul the Apostle *Pauline privilege, a form of dissolution of marriage People *Pauline (given name), a female given name *Pauline (singer) (born 1988), French singer (full name Pauline Vasseur) *Pauline Kamusewu (born 1982), Swedish singer of Zimbabwean origin, also known as just Pauline Places *Pauline, Idaho, United States *Pauline, Kansas, Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Literary Supplement
''The Times Literary Supplement'' (''TLS'') is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. History The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication in 1914. Many distinguished writers have contributed, including T. S. Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974, when signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship of John Gross. This aroused great controversy. "Anonymity had once been appropriate when it was a general rule at other publications, but it had ceased to be so", Gross said. "In addition I personally felt that reviewers ought to take responsibility for their opinions." Martin Amis was a member of the editorial staff early in his career. Philip Larkin's poem "Aubade", his final poetic work, was first published in the Christmas-week issue of the ''TLS'' in 1977. While it has long been regarded as one of the world's pre-emi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McDonald (Guyanese Writer)
Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as " Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction." His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother’s side. His only novel, ''The Humming-Bird Tree'', first published in 1969, is considered a classic of Caribbean literature.Nicholas Laughlin"Ian McDonald: Evening in the Garden" ''Caribbean Beat'', Issue 96, March/April 2009. Early years and education Ian McDonald was born on 18 April 1933, in St Augustine, Trinidad, where his mother, Thelma McDonald (''née'' Seheult), and her parents were born and where his father, John Archie McDonald (who was born in St. Kitts and whose parents were born in Antigua), was Agricultural Director of Gordon Grant Limited. His uncle was Air Marshall Sir Arthur McDonald of Royal Air Force. He has four sisters – Heather Murray, Gillian Howie, Robin McDonald an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Escoffery
Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic active in the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended St Hilda's High School, Brown's Town. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently studied in England at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1950–52), and the University of the West Indies's School of Education. Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Jamaica and elsewhere. Her works feature in many public and private collections. In 1977 she was awarded the Order of Distinction and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 1985. Publications * ''Landscape in the Making'' (a pamphlet, 1976) * ''Loggerhead'' (Sandberry Press, 1988) * ''Mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Beacon Books
New Beacon Books is a British publishing house, bookshop, and international book service that specializes in Black British, Caribbean, African, African-American and Asian literature. Founded in 1966 by John La Rose and Sarah White, it was the first Caribbean publishing house in England. New Beacon Books is widely recognized as having played an important role in the Caribbean Artists Movement, and in Black British culture more generally. The associated George Padmore Institute (GPI) is located on the upper floors of the same building where the bookshop resides at 76 Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, London. History New Beacon Books started out as a publishing house that was run out of the Hornsey, North London, flat of John La Rose and Sarah White. It was named after the Trinidadian journal '' The Beacon'', which was published between 1931 and 1932. In 1967, La Rose and White moved New Beacon Books to new premises, in Finsbury Park, where the company also began to function as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Selvon
Samuel Selvon (20 May 1923 – 16 April 1994)"Samuel Selvon" Encyclopædia Britannica. was a -born writer, who moved to London, England, in the 1950s. His 1956 novel '''' is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or "", for narrative as well as dialogue. Life and work Samuel Dickson Selvon was born in |
Eric Roach
Eric Merton Roach (3 November 1915 – 18 April 1974) was a Tobagonian poet and playwright. He published some early writing under the pseudonym Merton Maloney. Life Roach grew up in Mount Pleasant, Tobago: Between 1949 and 1955, his poetry was frequently broadcast on the BBC programme ''Caribbean Voices''. In 1960s, Roach began to gain an international reputation. However, he became overwhelmed and depressed, and committed suicide in 1974, drinking insecticide before swimming in the ocean. Work Plays * ''Belle Fanto: A Medium-length Play in 3 Acts'', 1967 * ''Letter from Leonora'', 1968 * ''A Calabash of Blood (a Full-length Play in 3 acts)'', 1971 * ''New Dancers in the Dooryard'' (undated) Poems * ''The Flowering Rock: Collected Poems 1938–1974'', Peepal Tree Press, 1992 Plays: performance history ''Belle Fanto'' Trinidad and Tobago Secondary Schools Drama Festival * 1971: St. George's College (Trinidad and Tobago) directed by Slade Hopkinson. * 1973: Palo Seco Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lamming
George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for '' In the Castle of My Skin'', his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University,Clarke, Sherrylyn"Black History Month: George Lamming", ''NationNews'' (Barbados), 13 February 2014. and lectured extensively worldwide."George Lamming is Chief Judge of the Inaugural Walter Rodney Creative Writing Award" Walter Rodney Foundation, 15 February 2014. Early life and education George William Lamming wa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shake Keane
Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927 – 11 November 1997) was a Vincentian jazz musician and poet. He is best known today for his role as a jazz trumpeter, principally his work as a member of the ground-breaking Joe Harriott Quintet (1959–65). Early life in St Vincent Born on the Caribbean island of St Vincent into "a humble family that loved books and music", Keane attended Kingstown Methodist School and St Vincent Grammar School. He was taught to play the trumpet by his father, Charles (who died when Keane was 13), and gave his first public recital at the age of six. When he was 14 years old, Keane led a musical band made up of his brothers. In the 1940s, with his mother Dorcas working to raise six children, the teenager joined one of the island's leading bands, Ted Lawrence and His Silvertone Orchestra. During his early adulthood in St Vincent, his principal interest was literature, rather than the music for which he would become better known. He had been dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Drayton
Geoffrey Drayton (13 February 1924 – 2017) was a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist. Life Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. In 1945, he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, returning to England in 1953.Hughes, Michael, "Drayton, Geoffrey", ''A Companion to West Indian Literature'', Collins, 1979, pp. 42–3. He worked as a freelance journalist in London and Madrid. From 1954 to 1965 he worked for ''Petroleum Times'', becoming its editor. In 1966 he became a petroleum consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit.Myers, Robin, ed., ''A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language from 1940 to 1970'', Pergamon Press, 1978. Drayton was the author of one volume of poetry, ''Three Meridians'' (1950), and two novels: ''Christopher'' (1959), which was first published in part in ''Bim'' magazine, and ''Zohara'' (1961). He also wrote short storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Dawes
Neville Dawes (16 June 1926 – 13 May 1984) was a novelist and poet born in Nigeria of Jamaican parentage. He was the father of poet and editor Kwame Dawes. Biography Neville Augustus Dawes was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jamaican parents Augustus Dawes (a Baptist missionary and teacher) and his wife Laura, and was raised in rural Jamaica, where the family returned when he was three years old.Barrie Davies"Dawes, Neville" in Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, ''Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English'', Routledge, 2004, p. 346. In 1938 he won a scholarship to Jamaica College and subsequently went to Oriel College, Oxford University, where he read English."Dawes, Neville", in Michael Hughes, ''A Companion to West Indian Literature'', Collins, 1979, p. 39. After graduating he went to teach at Calabar High School in Kingston, Jamaica. Returning to West Africa in 1956, he took up a teaching post at Kumasi Institute of Technology in Ghana. He was subsequently a lecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamau Brathwaite
The Honourable Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, Department of Comparative Literature. Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite was the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry ''Born to Slow Horses''.Staff (2006)"Kamau Brathwaite." The Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006. Brathwaite held a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (1968)Staff (2010)"Bios – Kamau Brathwaite." The Center for Black Literature. The National Black Writers Conference, 2010. and was the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM).Robert Dorsman, translated by Ko Kooman (1999)"Kamau Brathwaite", Poetry International Web. He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983, and was a winner of the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
