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Old 02-27-2008, 09:16 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Old 03-05-2008, 02:25 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Jean Rhys

is from martinique I believe... at least that is where wide sargasso sea takes place


but I think she lived in england most of the time?
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Old 03-05-2008, 07:37 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I was just about to put him up here. I really enjoyed reading his book I wonder if their is a second half to the story. After reading his book it inspired me to go back into writing.
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Old 03-19-2008, 02:58 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sebas4920 View Post
Jean Rhys

is from martinique I believe... at least that is where wide sargasso sea takes place


but I think she lived in england most of the time?

Jean Rhys is from Dominica.
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Old 03-19-2008, 03:12 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sebas4920 View Post
Jean Rhys

is from martinique I believe... at least that is where wide sargasso sea takes place


but I think she lived in england most of the time?
Jean Rhys is from Dominica...

Wide Sargasso Sea takes place in Dominica...


She lived most of her life in Dominica.
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Old 03-20-2008, 06:56 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Old 07-25-2008, 12:54 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Just adding to author lists with a couple recent Grenadian authors

SOme of the works are non-fiction:

Steele, Angus, A to Z of Grenada Heritage, 2007
Scoon, Sir Paul,
De Riggs, Anthony Wendell
Purcell, Joan
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Old 07-28-2008, 11:13 AM   #39 (permalink)
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Elizabth Nunez (Trinidad...Prospero's Daughter, Discretion and Bruised Hibiscus...loved them all)

Colin Channer (Jamaica...loved all his except Girl with the Golden Shoes)

Oonya Kempadoo (Guyana...Buxton Spice...have the other one but haven't read it yet)

errrrm..Andrea Levy, Christopher John Farley, Maryse Conde
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Old 09-02-2008, 09:53 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Old 09-12-2008, 04:55 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Jean Rhys is from Dominica indeed my old house in the city was right across from where she lived..
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i dont care about his autobiography of Mr.walcott but i like his books
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Old 10-14-2008, 10:50 PM   #44 (permalink)
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nice!!!!! Edwidge Danticat (HAITI). "Krik? Krak!" one of my fav. also anyone who parents came to the states first and left them in their homeland must read "Breath, eyes, memory". (love this book)
also Roslyn Carrington( trinidad) "A thirst for rain"
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