Lawrence Scott is a novelist from Trinidad & Tobago, currently living in London

London

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 and Trinidad. He is presently a Senior Research Fellow at The Academy for the Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs at the University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT).

Scott is a descendant of Trinidad's French and German creoles and was educated by the Benedictine monks at Mount Saint Benedict before leaving for England as a young man. He now moves between London and Port of Spain.

He has published three novels:

• Witchbroom (1992), shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best first Book (1993), read on BBC Book At Bedtime (1993).
• Aelred's Sin (1998), winner of the a Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in Canada & Caribbean (1999).
• Night Calypso (2004), shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in Canada & the Caribbean (2005).

'Golconda: Our Voices Our Lives (2009) Editor, Lawrence Scott, Published by UTT Press,University of Trinidad & Tobago

Scott has also written a collection of short stories, Ballad for the New World (1994), which includes the prize-winning story "The House of Funerals" (Tom-Gallon Award, 1986).

External links

• Press release, University of the West Indies
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• Lawrence Scott's website http://www.lawrencescott.co.uk/