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Name: Samuel Selvon  
   
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Date of Birth: 20th May 1923
   
Place of Birth: Trinidad, West Indies
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Samuel Selvon (1923–1994) was a Trinidad-born writer of mixed Indo-Trinidadian and European descent. Selvon was educated at Naparima College, San Fernando before moving to London, England in the 1950s, and later to British Columbia, Canada. He is known for novels such as The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending.

Criticism

Critical works on Selvon include:

  • Clement Wyck, Sam Selvon's dialectal style and fictional strategy (1991).
  • Austin Clarke, Passage back home: a personal reminiscence of Samuel Selvon (1994).
  • Mark S. Looker, Atlantic Passages: history, community, and language in the fiction of Sam Selvon (1996).
  • Roydon Salick, The Novels of Samuel Selvon (2001).

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