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  • Novelist, playwright and short-story writer Earl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad in and grew up in Tobago.

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    A Brief Biography of Earl Lovelace

    David P. Lichtenstein '99, Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web

    The traveler Earl Lovelace began his journeys in Toco, Trinidad on July 13, Though he grew up in Trinidad, his travels began shortly after adolescence as he moved to the United States to study both at Howard University () and at Johns Hopkins (). Primarily he has followed the literary career--novelist, journalist, playwright and short-story writer--but in his time he has also served as a proofreader for the Trinidad Publishing Company, a forest ranger, and an agricultural assistant for the Jamaican Civil service.

    Lovelace has gained most praise for his novels, in which he presents people (generally in a Caribbean setting) striving for agency despite hostile forces of urbanization and neocolonalism. Frequently Lovelace's characters must choose between their own cultural heritage and the prosperity promised by assimilation. He gains access into their mindset and the

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    “We are on the verge of listening”

    Earl Lovelace talks to B.C. Pires about his long-awaited new novel Is Just a Movie, and acknowledging the importance of rebellion

    Earl Lovelace. Photograph by Stefan Falke

    Born in Toco, in north-east Trinidad, in , Earl Lovelace is the author of the novels While Gods Are Falling (), The Schoolmaster (), The Dragon Can’t Dance (), The Wine of Astonishment (), and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize–winning Salt (), as well as volumes of short fiction, plays, and essays. His long-awaited sixth novel, Is Just a Movie, was published in early The scholar Funso Aiyejina suggests that Lovelace’s books “speak of, to, and for those who are not usually the subjects in their own history . . . his vision, no matter how unique, echoes, clarifies, problematises, and extends folk preoccupations, wisdom, and philosophy.”

    Soon after the launch of Is Just a Movie, Lovelace spoke to B.C. Pires over lunch about his fiction’s exploration of t

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    Earl Lovelace Biography

    Nationality: Trinidadian. Born: Taco, Trinidad, Career: Proofreader, Trinidad Guardian, ; civil servant: agricultural assistant in Jamaica, ; journalist, Trinidad and Tobago Express, ; lecturer in English, University of the District of Columbia, ; writer-in-residence, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, Since teacher, University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad. Awards: B.P. Independence award, ; Pegasus Literary award, ; Guggenheim fellowship, ; National Endowment for the Humanities grant, ; Commonwealth Writers' prize,

    PUBLICATIONS

    Novels

    While Gods Are Falling. London, Collins, ; Chicago, Regnery,

    The Schoolmaster. London, Collins, and Chicago, Regnery,

    The Dragon Can't Dance. London, Deutsch, ; Washington, D.C., Three Continents Press,

    The Wine of Astonishment. London, Deutsch, ; New York, Vintage,

    Salt. New York, Persea Books,

    Short Stories

    A Brief Conversation and Other Stories. London, Heinem