- Lakshmi Persaud
Lakshmi Persaud is a prominent
Caribbean novelist. She was born inTrinidad and Tobago in 1939. She is classified also as a novelist of theIndian diaspora . Some of her writings are on Indo-Caribbean themes as well as themes of cultural change. She has published four novels. She is a writer with a poetic style and her books are widely used in post-colonial and Caribbean literature courses and in book clubs. The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at Warwick University in the UK has established a Research Fellowship in her name. She had an academic career before turning to writing novels. She has B.A (Hons) and Ph.D degrees fromQueen's University, Belfast .Dr Lakshmi Persaud is the wife of economist Prof Bishnodat Persaud and has three children: psychiatrist,
Raj Persaud , the financial economist, ProfAvinash Persaud and Sharda Dean.Works
*"Butterfly in the wind", Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree, 1990 (1996 printing) ISBN 094883336X
*"For the love of my name", Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree, 2000. ISBN 1900715422
*"Sastra", Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 1993. ISBN 0948833718
*"Raise the Lanterns High", London: BlackAmber, 2004 ISBN 1-901969-20-7
External links
* [http://www.Lakshmipersaud.com Home page]
* [http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=60 Publisher's Author Biography page]
* http://www.londonlibraries.org/servlets/llr/smallpresses/8001]
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