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Lawrence Scott is from Trinidad & Tobago. He is the prize-winning author of the novel Aelred’s Sin, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 1999, Best Book in the Canada & the Caribbean. Night Calypso, his most recent novel, was short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in Canada & the Caribbean 2005, and nominated for The International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2006 and was published in France as Calypso de Nuit in June 2005. His first novel Witchbroom was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada & the Caribbean, 1993. It was read on the BBC’s Book At Bed Time. His collection of short stories Ballad for the New World,1994, includes The House of Funerals, the prize-winning short story for the 1986 Tom-Gallon Award. His short stories have been read on the BBC and have been anthologised internationally, notably in The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. He has also published poetry in a number of anthologies and journals: Caribbean New Voices 1 (Longman 1995), Trinidad & Tobago Review, Cross/Cultures 60 (Editons Rodopi B.V. Amsterdam –NewYork, NY 2002, Agenda 2002-2003). He moves between London and Port-of-Spain in Trinidad where he was recently Writer in Residence at the University of the West Indies, 2004. He is A Senior Research Fellow of The Academy at Unversity of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) for Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs 2006-2008. He divides his time between writing and teaching Literature and Creative Writing.
EDUCATION Primary- Boys’ RC School, San Fernando, Trinidad 1950-1954 Secondary- The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Tunapuna, Trinidad 1955-1962 Tertiary – Prinknash Abbey Gloucester, England Philosophy & Theology 1963-1967 St Clare’s Hall Oxford, England- BA Hons. (London) English Language & Literature 1968-1972 Manchester University, Manchester,England- Certificate In Education English & Drama (Distinction) 1972-1973
AWARDS Nominated for The International Impac Dublin Literary Award for Night Calypso 2006 Shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in Canada & Caribbean for Night Calypso 2005 A Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in Caribbean & Canada for Aelred’s Sin 1999 Nominated for the The International Impac Literary Award Prize for Aelred’s SIn 1999 Long-listed for the Whitbread & Booker Prizes for Aelred’s Sin 1999 Short-Listed for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book in Caribbean & Canada for Witchbroom 1993 Tom–Gallon Award for the Short Story The House of Funerals, included in Ballad For The New World 1986 Award from The Author’s Foundation & K Blundell Trust (Research) 1995 British Council Grant to attend Carifesta 1995
PROFILES Aiyejina, Funso, 2003. Self Portrait - Lawrence Scott Novelist, Short story Writer and Poet in conversation with Funso Aiyejina, The University of the West Indies, School of continuing Studies St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago W.I. pp 163-200 (Interview conducted 16 august 1998, Maraval Port-of Spain. First published in Trinidad & Tobago Review 20 no. 12, December 1998 10-11, 14-16, 19 Ferguson, James. 2000. The Worlds of Lawrence Scott - beatprofile Caribbean Beat No. 43 May/June 2000 pp 48-52
FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY Scott, Lawrence. 1992. Leaving by Plane, Swimming Back Under Water. God, an anthology of fiction, Serpent’s Tail edited Stephen Hayward & Sarah Lefanu
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
HIGHER EDUCATION (BA MA PHD) Senior Research Fellow in The Academy of the Arts of the University of Trinidad & Tobago 2006-2008 Writer in Residence University of the West Indies St Augustine Trinidad & Tobago Feb-March 2004 Caribbean Literature Course Metropolitan University, London April 2004
SECONDARY/TERTIARY TEACHING (English & Drama in England & Trinidad) Sedgehill Comprehensive, London 1973-1974 Thomas Calton Comprehensive, London 1974-1977 Presentation College, San Fernando, Trinidad 1977-1978 Aranguez Junior Sec. Trinidad 1978-1980 Tulse Hill Comprehensive & Archbishop Tennison’s, London 1980-1982 Aranguez Junior Sec. Trinidad 1982-1983 City & Islington Sixth Form College, London (Literature & Creative Writing) 1983-2006 |
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