Lakshmi Persaud

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Lakshmi Persaud is a prominent Caribbean novelist. 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 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 from Queen's University, Belfast.

Dr Lakshmi Persaud is the wife of Prof Bishnodat Persaud and mother of Dr Raj Persaud, Prof Avinash Persaud and Sharda Dean.

[edit] Works

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

Raise the Lanterns High. London: BlackAmber, 2004 ISBN 1-901969-20-7

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