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Samuel Selvon (20 May 1923 – 16 April 1994) was a Trinidad-born writer, who moved to London, England, in the 1950s. His 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is groundbreaking in its use of creolised English, or " nation language ", for narrative as well as dialogue.
May 16, 2024 · Samuel Selvon (born May 20, 1923, Trinidad—died April 16, 1994, Port of Spain) was a Caribbean novelist and short-story writer of East Indian descent, known for his vivid evocation of the life of East Indians living in the West Indies and elsewhere.
May 20, 2018 · Sam Selvon was one of the first fiction writers to give voice to the Windrush generation. His ground-breaking 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners is as important today as it ever was, regaling the...
Selvon was by no means the first writer to explore West Indian migrant experience: as early as 1934 Jean Rhys (1890–1979), in her novel Voyage in the Dark, focused on a young woman from the Caribbean struggling to come to terms with life in London.
The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon. Its publication was one of the first to focus on poor, working-class black people following the enactment of the British Nationality Act 1948 alongside George Lamming 's ( 1954) novel The Emigrants.
Sam Selvon. From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s. In the hopeful aftermath of war they flocked to the Mother Country — West Indians in search of a prosperous future in the "glitter-city."
Jul 14, 2021 · In The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon depicts a divided metropolis. A landmark of postwar urban literature, the novel compellingly details the tensions among race, class, gender, and sexuality in an increasingly multicultural city.
