FEATURE CONVERSATION: A GROUNDING CONVERSATION WITH EARL LOVELACE

“The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel
loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for
human decency” – Salt


Join us as Festival Director, Erica M.B. Ashton chats
with Earl Lovelace, award-winning Caribbean writer and
playwright praised for his ability to capture the spirited
essence, vernacular, and culture of ordinary people. His
novel, Salt, was published in 1996 and won the Commonwealth
Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) in 1997. Set in
Trinidad, the book explores the legacy of colonialism and slavery
and the problems still faced by the country through the story of
Alford George, a teacher turned politician.


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