biography
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Lamming, George Eric
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Carrington Village, SE Barbados. He was a teacher before moving to England in 1950, where he hosted a book programme for the BBC West Indian Service. His first novels, with their unfamiliar background and terminology, received a lukewarm reception, but he continued to write about his West Indian experiences, notably Natives of My Person (1972). |
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