Andrew Salkey

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Andrew Salkey (January 30, 1928 - April 28, 1995) was a novelist, poet, freelance writer and journalist of Jamaican and Trinidadian origin. Salkey was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica. He died in Amherst, Massachusetts.

After completing his basic education in Jamaica, Salkey attended the University of London and became a part of the West Indian Students Union (WISU), which provided an effective forum for Caribbean students to express their ideas and provided voluntary support to the ‘harassed’ working class Caribbean immigrant community, during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The association also included Gerry Burton, Arif Ali Chris LeMaitre, John La Rose and Horace Lashley

Salkey published a number of novels over the course of his career. He was also a BBC interviewer and a professor in writing at Hampshire College in Amherst.

I was headed nowhere like a hundred million others: I had escaped a malformed Jamaican middle class; I had attained my autumn pavement; I had done more than my fair share of hurting, rejecting, and condemning; and I had created another kind of failure, and this time, in another country.

(from Escape To An Autumn Pavement)

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A Quality of Violence (novel, 1959)
Escape to an Autumn Pavement (novel, 1960)
West Indian Stories (editor, 1960)
Hurricane (children's novel, 1964)
Earthquake (children's novel, 1965)
Stories from the Caribbean (editor, 1965)
Commonwealth Poetry (editor West Indian section, 1965)
The Shark Hunters (1966)
Drought (1966)
Riot (1967)
Caribbean Prose: an anthology for secondary schools (editor, 1967)
The Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover (1968) ISBN 0090855302
The Adventures of Catullus Kelly (1969) ISBN 0090951409
Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies (compiler, 1970, c1965) ISBN 0871405040
Jonah Simpson (1970, c1969)
Breaklight: an anthology of Caribbean poetry, chosen, edited and introduced by Andrew Salkey (1971) ISBN 0241019621
Havana Journal (1971) ISBN 0140213031
Georgetown Journal: a Caribbean writer’s journey from London via Port of Spain to Georgetown, Guyana, 1970 (1972) ISBN 090124113X
Caribbean Essays: an anthology; edited and introduced by Andrew Salkey (1973) ISBN 0237289431
Jamaica (poems, 1973) ISBN 0091157412
Anancy’s Score (1973) ISBN 0950154679 ISBN 0950154687
Joey Tyson (1974) ISBN 0950154695 ISBN 0904521001
Come Home, Malcolm Heartland (1976)
Writing in Cuba since the Revolution: an anthology of poems, short stories, and essays (editor, 1977) ISBN 0904521052 ISBN 0904521044 (pbk.)
In the Hills Where Her Dreams Live: poems for Chile, 1973-1978 (1979)
Riot (1980) ISBN 0192771051
Away (poems; 1980) ISBN 0850313376 ISBN 0850313384 (pbk.)
The One: the story of how the people of Guyana avenge the murder of their Pasero with help from Brother Anancy and Sister Buxton (1985)
Brother Anancy and other stories (1993) ISBN 0582225817
In the Border Country and other stories (1998) ISBN 090452194X