Pauline Henriques and Samuel Selvon reading a story on the BBC in 1952, during the weekly Caribbean Voices segment.A 2016 photo of Naparima College, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. After completing his primary education, Samuel Selvon attended school here from 1937-1938. He left in 1938, without having completed his school certificate examination.A photo of Susamachar Presbyterian Church, taken in 2016. In 1947, Samuel Selvon married his first wife, Draupadi Persaud, at this San Fernando church.A 2013 photo of India House, the building where the High Commission of India in London is located. The building was completed in 1930. When Samuel Selvon first moved to London in 1950, he worked as a clerk in this building.The cover of A Brighter Sun, Samuel Selvon’s first novel. The novel was published in 1952.The 1956 cover of The Lonely Londoners. Popularly considered Samuel Selvon’s best novel, this book follows a group of West Indian immigrants as they navigate an often hostile London environment. This novel was also made famous by Selvon’s choice to use dialect in both the dialogue and the narration of the novel.A 1979 aerial photo of the University of Victoria campus. After Samuel Selvon moved to Canada in 1978 with his second wife, Althea Daroux, and his family, he took up a position teaching creative writing as a visiting professor at this university.Samuel Selvon in his office at the University of Calgary. Before becoming a writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary, Samuel Selvon worked for months as a janitor at the university.This 1974 photo of Samuel Selvon, John La Rose, and Andrew Salkey is entited “The Lime.” La Rose and Salkey were founding members of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), which was organized in London and was active from 1966-1972. The Trinidad-born photographer, Horace Ové, is known as one of the leading Black independent filmmakers in post-war Britain. He was the first Black British filmmaker to direct a feature-length film, Pressure (1975).
