Lakshmi Persaud
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Lakshmi Persaud is a Indo-Caribbean
novelist. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago
in 1939. She is classified also as a novelist of the Indian diaspora. Some of her writings are on Indo-Caribbean themes as well as themes of cultural change. She has published four novels. She is a writer with a poetic style and her books are widely used in post-colonial and Caribbean literature courses and in book clubs. The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at Warwick University in the UK has established a Research Fellowship in her name. She had an academic career before turning to writing novels. She has B.A (Hons) and Ph.D degrees from Queen's University, Belfast.
Dr Lakshmi Persaud is the wife of economist Prof Bishnodat Persaud and has three children: psychiatrist, Raj Persaud
, the financial economist, Prof Avinash Persaud
and city economist, Sharda Dean.
Indo-Caribbean
Indo-Caribbean people or Indo-Caribbeans are Caribbean people with roots in India or the Indian subcontinent. They are mostly descendants of the original indentured workers brought by the British, the Dutch and the French during colonial times...
novelist. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
in 1939. She is classified also as a novelist of the Indian diaspora. Some of her writings are on Indo-Caribbean themes as well as themes of cultural change. She has published four novels. She is a writer with a poetic style and her books are widely used in post-colonial and Caribbean literature courses and in book clubs. The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at Warwick University in the UK has established a Research Fellowship in her name. She had an academic career before turning to writing novels. She has B.A (Hons) and Ph.D degrees from Queen's University, Belfast.
Dr Lakshmi Persaud is the wife of economist Prof Bishnodat Persaud and has three children: psychiatrist, Raj Persaud
Raj Persaud
Rajendra Persaud , also known as Raj Persaud , born 13 May 1963, Reading, Berkshire is an English consultant psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author of popular books about psychiatry....
, the financial economist, Prof Avinash Persaud
Avinash Persaud
Avinash D. Persaud is Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd, a company specializing in analyzing, managing and creating financial liquidity in investment projects and portfolios. He is also the non-Executive Chairman of the London-based Elara Capital, a leading investment bank...
and city economist, Sharda Dean.
Works
- Butterfly in the wind, Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree, 1990 (1996 printing) ISBN 094883336X
- For the love of my name, Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree, 2000. ISBN 1900715422
- Sastra, Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 1993. ISBN 0948833718
- Raise the Lanterns High, London: BlackAmber, 2004 ISBN 1-901969-20-7