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W. The Wine of Astonishment. Categories: Trinidad and Tobago in fiction. Novels by island country of setting. Novels set in the Caribbean by country.
— From Enigma of Arrival (1987) V. S. Naipaul was born to Droapatie (née Capildeo) and Seepersad Naipaul on 17 August 1932 in the sugar plantation -town of Chaguanas on the island of Trinidad, the larger of the two islands in the British crown colony of Trinidad and Tobago. He was the couple's second child and first son. Naipaul's father, Seepersad, was an English-language journalist. In ...
Trinidad and Tobago literature has its roots in oral storytelling among African slaves, the European literary roots of the French creoles and in the religious and folk tales of the Indian indentured immigrants. It blossomed in the 20th century with the writings of C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul and Saint Lucian -born Derek Walcott as part of the ...
The ferruginous pygmy owl is known as the jumbie bird in Trinidad and Tobago. The book explores the transformation of "East Indians" into Indo-Trinidadians. According to University of San Diego scholar Atreyee Phukan, Khan used the "language and vocabulary of Afro-Caribbean mythology" as it depicts the "cultural hybridization" of the Muslim ...
After returning to Trinidad in 1948, he met Evelyn Siulan Soy Moyou, a typist 13 years his junior of Chinese descent on her father's side and Chinese, African, and Portuguese descent on her mother's side, and she was a niece of Solomon Hochoy, the future Governor and Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago during Williams's premiership.
"Michael Anthony: Author and Historian", NALIS, Trinidad and Tobago. The literary papers of Michael Anthony can be found across repositories in Trinidad and Tobago and in the United States. Part of Anthony's archival collection, the Michael Anthony Papers is held at The Alma Jordan Library , Special Collections, University of the West Indies ...
Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in historical contexts, as West Indian literature. Most of these territories have become independent nations since the 1960s, though some retain colonial ...
Merle Hodge was born in 1944, in Curepe, Trinidad, the daughter of an immigration officer. She received both her elementary and high-school education in Trinidad, and as a student of Bishop Anstey High School, she won the Trinidad and Tobago Girls' Island Scholarship in 1962. The scholarship allowed her to attend University College, London ...