Earl Lovelace

Earl Lovelace is a Trinidad and Tobago novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer who has always lived in Trinidad, and his fiction shows that closeness to Trinidadian society. His first novel, While Gods Are Falling, appeared in 1965 and won the Trinidad and Tobago Independence literary competition. His later novels include Salt, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1996, and Is Just a Movie, which won the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.