The Austin Clarke Reader
Born in Barbados in 1934, Clarke came to Toronto in 1955. He has been in the forefront of West Indian writing and Canadian writing ever since, bringing to bear on all of his dozen books of fiction his erudition, his familiarity with key figures in the civil rights movement, and his active engagement with politics in his adopted hometown, Toronto. In this long overdue reader, from a writer who has been an antennae for the crucial issues in our time, we have a substantial selection from his major stories, an excerpt from his novel, The Prime Minister (still banned in Barbados), his memoirs, his essays and reviews, and a number of key personal letters.
Austin Clarke is a novelist, short story writer and poet born in Barbados.
Other publications from this author include:
- In Your Crib (2015)
- Where The Sun Shines Best (2013)
- They Never Told Me: and Other Stories (2013)
- More (2009)
- Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories of Austin Clarke (2003)
- The Polished Hoe (2002)
- The Question (1999)
- The Origin of Waves (1997)
- Canadian Experience (1994)
- There Are No Elders (1993)
- In This City (1992)
- Proud Empires (1988)
- Nine Men Who Laughed (1986)
- When Women Rule (1985)
- Prime Minister (1977)
- The Bigger Light (1975)
- Storm of Fortune (1973)
- When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks (1971)
- The Meeting Point (1967)
- Amongst Thistles and Thorns (1965)
- The Survivors of the Crossing (1964)