Thread: Favorite Caribbean Authors

Been a while...

But a couple additions I've heard of:

Claude Douglas - When the Village was an Extended Family in Grenada
and The Battle for Grenada’s Black Gold

White Frocks and Coals Dust - Lincoln Depradine (not yet reviewed, upcoming release August 2009)

Love kevin Baldeosingh

Eric Williams and Walter Rodney are my favorites

Author/Writers

1. Claude McKay
2. Jan Carew
3. Wilson Harris
   Derek Walcott
   Jamaica Kincaid
   Edgewidge Dandicat
4. Colin Channer

Historians
Walter Rodney
Eric Williams

Philosophy
Marcus Garvey

The Abeng and My Conscious Pen
The Abeng and My Conscious Pen

Nalo Hopkinson - Science Fiction

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Some overlap from previous posts...but keeping the lists growing.

Robert Antoni (Bahamas)

Cheryl Boyce Taylor (Trinidad & Tobago)

Merle Collins (Grenada)

Jacinth Henry-Martin (St. Kitts-Nevis)

Marlon James (Jamaica)

Anton Nimblett (Trinidad & Tobago)

Elizabeth Nunez (Trinidad & Tobago)

Ras Oosagefo (Jamaica)

Yolaine St. Fort (Haiti)

Everton Sylvester (Jamaica)

Tiphanie Yanique (Virgin Islands)

Like Maryse Conde, just finished a book by Marlon James, was pretty good

Originally Posted by vincyprincess

i agree with your opinion of naipaul.

suggestion: George lamming's in the castle of my skin...good book.

+1

Originally Posted by luciansweetie26

+1

"castle of my skin" should be made into a movie.

Have read it many times.

Originally Posted by Chicktitude

Cool that's a name I was trying to remember. I read that one it was a very good read. Have you also read his Of Age and Innocence I think?

This also brings to mind a couple others

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea (don't remember where she is from exactly)

My Bones and my Flute (Guyanese/Surinamese author of Dutch origin I believe - can't recall his name)

MY BONES AND MY FLUTE author is Edgar Mittelholzer.
It is one of the scariest books ever written in the Caribbean.

Reading Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer.

It's a collection of short stories all based in Kingston from a cross section of authors:
Marlon James - the darkest story of all of them
Kei Miller
Leone Ross - the most poetic
Chris Abani
Ian Thomson
Patricia Powell
and a host of others

all the stories are darkly themed about murder, death or destruction of the soul in some way.

Don't read much fiction anymore, but here's a few.

Edwidge Danticat
Oonya Kempadoo
Wilson Harris - One of the greatest living writers.
Eduardo Galeano

I've read and enjoyed Naipaul, but he seems to have alienated just about everyone, including me.

Originally Posted by Seawall

Don't read much fiction anymore, but here's a few.

Edwidge Danticat
Oonya Kempadoo
Wilson Harris - One of the greatest living writers.
Eduardo Galeano

I've read and enjoyed Naipaul, but he seems to have alienated just about everyone, including me.

I like fiction mainly in the summer time for a level of escapism. lol
And then I do stick with Caribbean authors for summer reading. Otherwise, I dont really study that too tough.

Just googling Harris. Which of his books do you like?

I truly like the way of concet about Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback) by Edwidge Danticat... which is my favourite author..!

Reading to young children promotes language acquisition and literacy development and, later on, achievement in reading comprehension and overall success in school. The percentage of young children read aloud to daily by a family member is one indicator of how well young children are prepared for school. Yet, recent studies on family reading suggest too many youngsters go without the benefit of a family member reading to them.