Books written by Earl Lovelace

  • A Brief Conversion and Other Stories

    In thirteen vivid stories, award-winning author Earl Lovelace paints a compassionate, often humorous portrait of everyday life in Trinidad. Ordinary people like Victor the barber, Shoemaker Arnold, Miss Ross (once...

  • The Dragon Can't Dance: A Novel

    The carnival usually succeeds in uniting the residents of Calvary Hill in Trinidad, but changes in the festival threaten to divide the community

  • Trinidad Noir: The Classics

    “To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Two of Trinidad’s top writers masterfully curate ...

  • Trinidad Noir: The Classics

    Two of Trinidad's top literary writers masterfully curate this retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century.

  • Is Just a Movie

    For Is Just a Movie, he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe and the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

  • The Wine of Astonishment

    Earl Lovelace writes about the survival of a small community of Spiritual Baptists with a lyricism and understanding of dialogue which has established an international reputation.