Renowned writer Earl Lovelace to participate in CARIFESTA XII

According to a recent bulletin published by the CARIFESTA XII Management team, Trinidadian writer, Earl Lovelace, will be participating in CARIFESTA XII. He will be the keynote speaker at a symposium which will take place on August 25 and 26 at the Haitian National Library from 9am to 4pm. The theme will be ‘The Caribbean a Collective Memory’.

Earl Lovelace is one of the Region’s well-known writers and is among the best in the Anglophone world. He studied at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and then attended John Hopkins University in Baltimore and has taught at many universities in the United States.

He became famous in 1979 with the release of The Dragon Can’t Dance, a novel centred on the life of Aldrick Prospect, a man who spent his time creating a dragon costume for the annual carnival. A depiction of the Trinidadian community struggling with racial tensions and a heavy colonial legacy. Earl Lovelace is also President of the Association of Caribbean Writers.

Other speakers at the writing symposium will include Carol Boys Davis, President of Caribbean Studies; Tierry Letang, Scientific Director of ACTe in Guadeloupe (Caribbean Center of Expression and Slave Trade); and the outstanding Lyonel Trouillot, Vice President of the Association of Caribbean Writers, Writer and Professor at the State University of Haiti; Laennec Hurbon, Sociologist and Researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research, France (CNRS), specialist in relations between religions, cultures and politics in Haiti and in the Caribbean.

Persons interested in participating in the symposium can register by writing to gessie.noisin@bnh.ht.