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Earl Lovelace
Writer

Earl Lovelace

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Writing novels deeply rooted in Trinidadian life and language.

While Gods Are Falling · Salt

Born
13 July 1935
Birthplace
Toco

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Earl Lovelace

Earl Lovelace is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist and playwright whose fiction explores community, cultural change and the relationship between rural and urban life.

Early life

Toco and Tobago

Spent early childhood with grandparents in Tobago before returning to Trinidad.

Career

  1. 1965

    First novel

    Published While Gods Are Falling.

  2. 1996

    Salt

    Published his Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel.

  3. 2012

    Bocas recognition

    Is Just a Movie won the OCM Bocas Prize.

Selected work

While Gods Are Falling

An early exploration of Trinidadian social life.

Salt

Examines freedom and belonging.

Is Just a Movie

A later novel of community and representation.

Beyond work

Home

Maintained his life and writing base in Trinidad.

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Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Pacific Lutheran University visiting writer programme. Copyrighted image; source credit retained · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.