Samuel Selvon (1923–1994)
Autore di The Lonely Londoners
Sull'Autore
Largely self-educated, Selvon was first a poet, later a journalist, and then a professional writer. In 1946 he became an editor at the Guardian Weekly in Trinidad. He left for England in 1950, where he wrote and published his first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952). This novel depicts the struggle of mostra altro the protagonist, a newly married Indian peasant, to adapt to life in a suburban area. In Turn Again Tiger (1958), a sequel to his highly successful first novel, the protagonist of A Brighter Sun returns to his community with a deeper sense of place. Both novels explore his relations to his origins and the various layers of Trinidadian society. Moses Ascending (1975) is a humorous satire on the situation of the West Indian in London. Although his roots are in the nineteenth-century novel, Selvon has created a personal literary language out of the fusion of standard English with Creole folk language, just as he has joined the techniques of European fiction to the West Indian rhythms. Though he now lives in Calgary, Canada, Selvon continues to write about West Indians with humor and sensitivity and tries to communicate his view that all West Indians---in spite of racial diversity---have a common identity. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Samuel Selvon
I Hear Thunder 1 copia
One Hundred Modern Poems 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Collaboratore — 71 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Selvon, Samuel Dickson
- Data di nascita
- 1923-05-20
- Data di morte
- 1994-04-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Luogo di nascita
- San Fernando, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
- Luogo di residenza
- Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (birth)
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (death)
Canada
London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 20
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 1,220
- Popolarità
- #21,044
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 37
- ISBN
- 61
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 7