Earl Lovelace

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

Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago in 1935. He worked at the Trinidad Guardian as a proofreader from 1953-1954, and then for the Department of Forestry and the Department of Agriculture. He studied at Howard College from 1966-1967, 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 1971-73, and from 1977-1987, 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.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Selected works 2.1 Novels 2.2 Plays and musicals 2.3 Other 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Awards

• British Petroleum Independence Award, 1964, 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.

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Novels

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Other

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

[edit] References

Earl Lovelace - Accessed January 27, 2006

[edit] External links

• 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."