Lakshmi Persaud
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Lakshmi Persaud is a prominent Caribbean novelist, whose ancestors were from India. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago. She is classified also as a novelist of the Indian 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. 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 from Queen's University, Belfast.
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Butterfly in the wind. Leeds, Yorkshire, England: Peepal Tree, 1990 (1996 printing) ISBN 094883336X
For the love of my name. Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 2000. ISBN 1900715422
Sastra. Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 1993. ISBN 0948833718
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