Nothing is ordinary or predictable in Brian Samuel’s autobiography Song for My Father. With the exception of Phil Knight’s memoir Shoe Dog, I can’t recall any book I’ve read in this genre that is so laugh-aloud funny. But Samuel’s story is one up on Knight’s for its ability to tackle serious, uncomfortable topics through humour.
Roydon Salick’s Mayaro Gold: The Fiction of Michael Anthony was published this month by Ian Randle Publishers. It is one of the books presented this year at the Bocas Lit Fest, taking place from April 28 to 30, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Ken Ramchand describes the book as an “introductory study [that] understands well…
Life writing – in books ranging from memoirs to family histories – is set to be a major focus at this year’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest, with readings and discussions featuring a fascinating line-up of Trinidad and Tobago authors. A rapidly growing, popular genre with locally-based writers, life writing records real-life personal and community stories.
S. Brian Samuel’s Song for My Father: A West Indian Journey (Ian Randle Publishers, 2023) tells “a different narrative of the West Indian father.” Samuel will be presenting his newly published memoir this year at the Bocas Lit Fest, taking place from April 28 to 30, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Cover Blurb: In 1942…
The influence of Trinidad-born, US-based Caribbeanist scholar Sandra Pouchet Paquet in shaping decades of intellectual and critical thought is impossible to understate, the Bocas Lit Fest has said. The festival is awarding her the 2023 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, in recognition of her pioneering contributions to academia, literature and