Earl Lovelace

Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer.

Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1932. He worked at the "Trinidad Guardian" as a proofreader from 1953 to 1954, and then for the Department of Forestry and the Department of Agriculture. He studied at Howard College from 1966 to 1967, and received an MA in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1974. In 1980, he became writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa. He taught at the Federal City College (now University of the District of Columbia), Washington, DC, from 1971 to 1973, and from 1977 to 1987, he lectured in literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine. He is a columnist for the "Trinidad Express", and contributes to a number of periodicals, including "Voices", "South", and "Wasafiri".

Awards

*British Petroleum Independence Award, 1963, for "While Gods Are Falling".
*Pegasus Literary Award, for outstanding contributions to the arts in Trinidad and Tobago, 1966.
*Awards for best play and best music, 1977, for "Pierrot Ginnard".
*Guggenheim fellowship, 1980.
*Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986.
*Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 1997, for "Salt".

elected works

Novels

*"While Gods Are Falling", Collins (London, England), 1965, Regnery (Chicago, IL), 1966.
*"The Schoolmaster", Regnery (Chicago, IL), 1968.
*"The Dragon Can't Dance," André Deutsch (London, England), 1979, Three Continents (Washington, DC), 1981.
*"The Wine of Astonishment", Heinemann (London, England), 1982, Vintage (New York, NY), 1984.
*"Salt", Faber (London), Persea Books (New York, NY), 1997.

Plays and musicals

*"My Name Is Village", produced in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Queen's Hall, 1976.
*"The New Hardware Store", produced at University of the West Indies, 1980.
*"Jestina's Calypso", produced in St. Augustine, Trinidad, at University of the West Indies, 1978.
*"The New Boss", 1962.
*"The Dragon Can't Dance" (stage adaptation of his novel; produced in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Queen's Hall, 1986), published in Black Plays 2, (London, England), 1989.
*"Pierrot Ginnard", produced in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Queen's Hall, 1977."Joebell&America" Produced In Lupinot Village,Trinidad,2006.

Other

*"A Brief Conversion and Other Stories", Heinemann (Oxford, England), 1988.

References

[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/profile/?p=auth63 Earl Lovelace] - Accessed January 27, 2006

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1496 Trinidadian Letters: Trinidadian Literary Culture] (September 26, 2001), Chezia B. Thompson, "Lovelace"; Brian Pastoor, "Poetry of Paradox in Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance"; Funso Aiyejina, "An Intertextual Critical Approach to Salt by Earl Lovelace"; Edith Perez Sisto, "Edith Perez Sisto Talks with Earl Lovelace."