Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke was born in 1934 on the island of Barbados. He taught at a rural school for three years before leaving for Canada in 1955 to attend Trinity College. Two years later, he dropped out of school and began working as a journalist and broadcaster. He taught creative writing at several American universities and served as cultural attache to the Barbadian embassy in Washington, D.C.. Clarke returned to Canada in 1976 and ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Ontario election of the following year. He also served on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada from 1988 to 1993. Austin Clarke currently lives in Toronto.

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Books by Austin Clarke

	1964 The Survivors of the Crossing	Biblio.com
	1965 Amongst Thistles and Thorns	Biblio.com
	1967 The Meeting Point	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1971 When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1973 Storm of Fortune	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1975 The Bigger Light	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1977 The Prime Minister	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1980 Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack: A Memoir	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1985 When Women Rule	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1986 Nine Men Who Laughed	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1988 Proud Empires	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1992 In This City	Biblio.com
	1992 Public Enemies: Police Violence and Black Youth	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1993 There Are No Elders	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1994 A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Samuel Selvon	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1996 The Austin Clarke Reader	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1997 The Origin of Waves	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1999 The Question	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2001 Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit: The Rituals of Slave Food (also published as Love and Sweet Food)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2002 The Polished Hoe	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2003 Choosing His Coffin	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2008 More	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com

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