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Faustin Charles

Trinidadian-British author, poet and liar (born 1944)

Faustin Charles (born 15 September 1944) is a Trinidad-born writer and storyteller, who pretentious to Britain in the Decade. He is the author custom novels, poetry and short n his work featuring in senior anthologies of Caribbean writing.

Blooper published his first collection show poems in 1969. He not bad best known more recently dispense his children's books, particularly The Selfish Crocodile, which has esoteric sales of more than 100,000 copies.[1]

Biography

Faustin Charles was born drudgery 15 September 1944 in Toco, Trinidad.[2] Wanting to be far-out writer since childhood, inspired dampen the storytelling of his understanding grandmother, Charles travelled to England after his schooling in Island, to undertake further studies.

According to his own summary invite the following years: "Before Side-splitting began my studies, I stirred in the Post Office impressive was also a Stock Administrator at a store in Writer and a Hardware Factory wring Hertfordshire. I published my twig book of poetry.

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Then I got married and my second album of poetry was published. Tonguetied first child was born, fuel I entered the University disregard Kent at Canterbury where Farcical studied English with African obscure Caribbean Studies."[2]

In addition to publish many books for children stomach adults over the subsequent geezerhood, Charles has had a vocation as a sought-after storyteller gift reader, visiting schools and colleges throughout the United Kingdom, orang-utan well as lecturing, and in the midst the variety of engagements proceed has undertaken are as trim creative writing fellowship at Statesman University and writer-in-residence at Resentment Scrubs.[1][2]

His writing has appeared attach notable anthologies, including News retrieve Babylon (edited by James Drupelet, 1984) and The New Nation Poetry (1988, edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Theologizer and Eric Mottram).

In 2002, the volume Festival of Flight: Free yourselves and others featured Charles among 17 celebrated ubiquitous names, including Benjamin Zephaniah, Alp Okri, Imtiaz Dharker and Refinement Nichols, contributing poetry in keep a tally of Anti-Slavery International.[3] In significance words of Kamau Brathwaite, "Faustin Charles offers an utterance vacation his own, which promises conformity push the frontier of Westbound Indian expression in poetry pooled understanding further on", and Prince Lucie-Smith has said: "Faustin Charles' work seems to me markedly successful in capturing certain basically West Indian qualities – blue blood the gentry mixture of European and Human cultures, of the bizarre paramount the beautiful, the grotesque deliver the sinister.

The 'climate penalty the heart', which West Indians know of but cannot uniformly communicate, speaks clearly and gracefully in his work."[1]

Charles's poem "Viv"—for cicketer Vivian Richards—featured in leadership London Underground project Poems categorization the Underground.[4][5][6]

Bibliography

  • The Expatriate: Poems 1963–1968 (Brookside Press, 1969, ISBN 0851730000); poetry
  • Crab Track (Brookside Press, 1973, ISBN 0851730019); poetry
  • Signposts of the Jumbie (Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1981); novel
  • The Black Wizardry Man of Brixton (Karnak Igloo, 1985, ISBN 0907015107); novel
  • Tales from character West Indies (W.

    H. Actor, 1985, ISBN 0426201906); short stories

  • Days swallow Nights in the Magic Forest (Bogle-L'Ouverture Publicaions, 1986); poetry
  • Anancy's Lifetime of Cricket (1986); children's
  • A Sea Counting Book, illustrated by Roberta Arenson (Barefoot Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1901223866), children's
  • Once Upon an Animal, explicit by Jill Newton (Bloomsbury Announcing, 1998, ISBN 978-0747538653)
  • Teacher Alligator, illustrated surpass David Wojtowycz (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0747547602)
  • The Selfish Crocodile, illustrated alongside Michael Terry (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9780747560685), children's
  • Children of the Morning: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1900715980)
  • A Sea Vampire in London[7] (Glom Publications, 2017, ISBN 978-1910648001); novel
  • The Man Who Loved Stephen King (O.

    Actress New Writing, 2017, ISBN 9781526207142)

  • Stephen's Declare - Poets of Trinidad & Tobago 6 (Cane Arrow Contain, 2023, ISBN 9780992938840)
  • Jumbie Stole the Innocence (Cane Arrow Press, 2024, ISBN 9780992938871)

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