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Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin. He was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1952 to pursue a job in the literary world, combining a job in a South London comprehensive school ...
Andrew Salkey, a Jamaican writer, emigrated to the UK in the early 1950s to study at London University. Salkey was one of a few Caribbean writers swept up in the boom of interest in Britain for the ‘exoticism’ of colonial countries, particularly after the migration of Caribbean workers to Britain.
24 apr 2024 · Notable Works: “A Quality of Violence”. “Anancy’s Score”. Andrew Salkey (born Jan. 30, 1928, Colón, Panama—died April 28, 1995, Amherst, Mass., U.S.) was a Caribbean author, anthologist, and editor whose work reflected a commitment to Jamaican culture.
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Andrew Salkey: A Man of Many Hats. By Eleanor Casson, Archivist and Cataloguer of the Andrew Salkey Archive (Deposit 10310), working in collaboration with the Eccles Centre for American Studies and the British Library. The catalogue will be made available in Autumn 2020.
Andrew Salkey was one of the leading figures of the first wave of post-war Caribbean writers who settled and worked in London. A prolific writer, he practised all the genres - poetry, the...
30 lug 2020 · In his diaries Salkey refers to BLP as ‘our publishing firm’, he was determined to be an active supporter of Caribbean writing and ‘keep the faith as a writer with my two Caribbean publishers in Britain’. Salkey’s first novel published by BLP was the children’s story Joey Tyson.
Andrew Salkey has 43 books on Goodreads with 1757 ratings. Andrew Salkey’s most popular book is Escape to an Autumn Pavement (Caribbean Modern Classics).
