George Lamming is a Barbadian author of West Indian literature. His first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, is a classic. He has won numerous literary awards and taught at universities worldwide. Lamming’s novels and essays are highly political.
George Lamming, born in Barbados on June 8, 1927, is an author of West Indian literature. His first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, published in 1953, is considered a classic of West Indian literature. In addition to writing novels, Lamming also writes poetry, literary criticism and social criticism. His writing in all genres has won much acclaim. The many literary awards he has been awarded include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Canada Council Fellowship, a Langston Hughes Festival Award, a Somerset Maugham Prize for Literature and a Felix Varela Award from the Consejo de Estado de la Republica de Cuba.
George Lamming was Visiting Professor and Writer-in-Residence at the City University of New York. He has served as a faculty member and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and a Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts at Brown University.
As a youth in Barbados, George Lamming attended Combermere High School. In 1946 he left Barbados for Trinidad. He taught there until 1950. After his stay in Trinidad, Lamming emigrated to England. For a short time, he worked in an English factory before becoming a broadcaster for the BBC Colonial Service in 1951. His career as an academic officially began in 1967 when he became a writer in residence and lecturer in the Department of Education and Creative Arts Center at the University of the West Indies. In addition to his aforementioned American teaching and teaching experience, Lamming has also taught or lectured at universities in Tanzania, Denmark, and Australia.
In addition to In the Castle of My Skin, Lamming has written the following novels:
Natives of My Person (1972)
Water with Berries (1971)
The Pleasures of Exile (1960)
Adventure Season (1960)
Of Age and Innocence (1958)
The Emigrants (1954)
George Lamming is a highly political author. His politics certainly enter his works of fiction, and he has made them evident in his published essays as well. Lamming has published the following essays:
“Western Education and Caribbean Intellectual: Come, Come, Go Home” (1995)
“Influencia del Africa en las litaraturas antillanas” (“The influence of Africa on Antillean literature”) (1972)
“The Pleasures of Exile” (1960)
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