“The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency” – Salt

Join us as Festival Director, Erica M.B. Ashton chats with Earl Lovelace, award-winning Caribbean writer and playwright praised for his ability to capture the spirited essence, vernacular, and culture of ordinary people. His novel, Salt, was published in 1996 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) in 1997. Set in Trinidad, the book explores the legacy of colonialism and slavery and the problems still faced by the country through the story of Alford George, a teacher turned politician.

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