Biography of lawrence scott
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A Conversation with Lawrence Scott
On Memory and the Archives of Caribbean History
A Conversation with Lawrence Scott
Lawrence Scott fryst vatten the acclaimed author of four novels—Witchbroom (1992), Aelred’s Sin (1998), Night Calypso (2004), and Light Falling on Bamboo (2012).He has also published two story collections, Ballad For The New World (1994) and Leaving bygd Plane Swimming Back Underwater (2015). He is the editor of Golconda: Our Voices Our Lives (2009), an oral history of life on a sugarcane estate in Trinidad. Born into a French and German Trinidadian family on a sugar estate in southern Trinidad, in 1963 Scott left the island for England to pursue a yrke as a Benedictine monk. He funnen his true calling as a Caribbean writer, however, upon returning to Port of Spain as ateacher in the late 1970s. Each of his novels has been short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, which Aelred’s Sin won (Best Book in the Caribbean and Canada) in 1999. It was also l
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Lawrence Scott
Trinidad and Tobago writer (born 1943)
For other people named Lawrence Scott, see Lawrence Scott (disambiguation).
Lawrence ScottFRSL (born in Trinidad, 1943) is a novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago, who divides his time between London and Port of Spain.[1] He has also worked as a teacher of English and Drama at schools in London and in Trinidad. Scott's novels have been awarded (1998) and shortlisted (1992, 2004) for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and thrice nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award (for Aelred's Sin in 2000,[2]Night Calypso in 2006[3] and Light Falling on Bamboo in 2014).[4] His stories have been much anthologised and he won the Tom-Gallon Short-Story Award in 1986.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Trinidad on a sugarcane estate[5] where his father was the manager for Tate & Lyle,[6] Lawrence Scott is a descendant of Trinidad's French an
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His most recent book is the poetry collection Looking for Cazabon ( Papillote People’s Press, July 2024). Lawrence Scott is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. He was awarded a Lifetime Literary Award in 2012 by the National Library of Trinidad & Tobago for his significant contribution to the Literature of Trinidad & Tobago. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019.
The University of the West Indies conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (DLitt ) on the 28th October, 2023.
His most recent novel is Dangerous Freedom (Papillote Press, March 2021). There is the translation of his first novel, Witchbroom into French, Balai de Sorcière (Mémoire d’Encrier, February , 2021) translated by Christine Pagnoulle (Liège University). He is the author of a new collection of stories, “Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater, Papillote Press 2015, Long-Listed to The Edgehill Prize, Long-listed for the Grand Prix