The Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan

A prize-winning novelist who was born in Toco, Trinidad, and grew up in Tobago. He has taught at The University of the West Indies and Wellesley College; he currently teaches at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He has written six volumes of fiction including the novels The Dragon Can't Dance (Longman, 1979), The Wine of Astonishment (André Deutsch, 1982), and Salt (Faber & Faber, 1996). He received the British Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1997 and was named the Trinidad Express Man of the Year for 1997. At present, he is working on a dramatic adaptation of The Dragon Can't Dance