Earl Lovelace
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Biography
Earl Wilbert Lovelace is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures." As Bernardine Evaristo notes, "Lovelace is unusual among celebrated Caribbean writers in that he has always lived in Trinidad.
"I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally."
"She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim"
"As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department."