SAMUEL  SELVON DATE OF BIRTH: May 20, 1923 PLACE OF BIRTH: ..., Trinidad EDUCATION: Naparima College (1938) CAREER:                                 Selvon began writing while serving in the Royal Navy Reserve during World War II, and became the fiction editor for the Trinidad Guardian newspaper when the war ended. He migrated to England in 1950 and had his short stories and poetry published in various journals and newspapers, such as the London Magazine, the New Statesman, and the Nation. He worked with the BBC during the 1960s and 1970s, and produced two television scripts: Anansi the Spiderman; and Home Sweet India. He also produced many radio programs and a film version of his book, The Lonely Londoners. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships in 1955 and 1968, and held university appointments in Great Britain, North America, and the Caribbean. He relocated to Calgary, Canada, in 1978. Selvon's lifetime works include the following books: 1952 - A Brighter Sun 1955 - An Island Is A World 1956 - The Lonely Londoners 1957 - Ways of Sunlight 1958 - Turn Again Tiger 1963 - I Hear Thunder 1965 - The Housing Lark 1968 - A Drink of Water 1970 - The Plains of Caroni 1972 - Those Who Eat the Cascadura 1975 - Moses Ascending 1983 - Moses Migrating 1989 - Foreday Morning: Selected Prose (1946-1986)                                            Selvon also wrote the plays "Highway in the Sun" and "Eldorado West One" (1988). AWARDS: 1969 - Trinidad & Tobago Humming Bird Medal Gold for Literature 1989 - Honorary Doctorate, University of Warwick, Coventry, England 1995 - Trinidad & Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold for Literature (posthumously) DIED: April 16, 1994, of a heart attack while on a visit to Trinidad. Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit