Austin Clarke

Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke was born on 26 July 1934 in the parish of St. James, Barbados, and was educated at Combermere School. He came to Canada in 1955 to study at the University of Toronto, worked as a journalist, then for the CBC, taught at Yale, Duke and the University of Texas, and in 1973 became cultural attaché of Barbados in Washington. He received the Giller Prize in 2002 for The Polished Hoe and died in Toronto on 26 June 2016.

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• NarrativeGrowing Up Stupid Under the Union JackAustin Clarke · 1980Literature