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Lawrence Scott is from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the prize-winning author of the novel Aelred’s Sin (1998), which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1999 for Best Book in Canada and the Caribbean. Night Calypso (2004), his most recent novel, was short-listed for the same Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and also nominated for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award (2006). It was translated and published in France as Calypso de Nuit (2005). His first novel Witchbroom (1993) was selected as BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book at Bedtime’, and also short-listed for Best First Novel in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His collection of short stories, Ballad for the New World (1994), includes ‘The House of Funerals’, which won the Tom-Gallon Award in 1986, and his short fiction has been read on the BBC and anthologised internationally. He has also published poetry in a number of anthologies and journals.
Lawrence moves between London and Port-of-Spain in Trinidad, where he was Writer in Residence at the University of the West Indies for 2005. He is currently Senior Research Fellow of The Academy for Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, where he divides his time between writing and teaching Literature and Creative Writing.
For more information see www.lawrencescott.co.uk .
Recent books:
Night Calypso (Allison & Busby: 2004)
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