tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post1749430575445639916..comments2022-10-10T08:34:58.715-04:00Comments on Antilles: the weblog of the CRB: Nicholas Laughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636815243848162408noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-74147582204058861622007-08-23T20:52:00.000-04:002007-08-23T20:52:00.000-04:00Is it that we have not found our voice? The very d...Is it that we have not found our voice? The very diversity that makes the region so unique is also paralyzing. I speak for Trinidad here but maybe we are, as Naipaul says, true mimic men. Beyond the work of the fifties with Selvon, early Naipaul and C.L.R. James, there's been no one else to fill the vacuum. And believe me, young British writers such as Zadie Smith and even Andrea Levy are rushingMy Chutney Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729456232318829085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-18901250409030176752007-08-20T15:36:00.000-04:002007-08-20T15:36:00.000-04:00Well Edwidge Danticat would no have qualified anyw...Well Edwidge Danticat would no have qualified anyway since she is Haitian. As for the drying up of the well..I wish to point out that generally speaking, many of the Caribbean's premier writers have been poets, not novelists. True there was the fifties generation with Lamming and Selvon among other but that was a long time ago and many of those great reputations rest mainly on a book or two. I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-63232990289148174322007-08-11T15:25:00.000-04:002007-08-11T15:25:00.000-04:00I can only speak for myself. And far be it for me ...I can only speak for myself. And far be it for me to suggest that my book was good enough for a Booker nod, (even though it was good enough for a Commonwealth Regional Prize nomination and the LA Times Book Prize finals) but regardless of its quality, my book would have been shut out because there was no UK imprint. Of course, Caribbean fiction has been coasting for years, but JT can't ignore theMarlon Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694034857728190133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3861024.post-22420688490447748482007-08-10T18:50:00.000-04:002007-08-10T18:50:00.000-04:00Well, that makes the point. After more than 48 hou...Well, that makes the point. After more than 48 hours, nobody has been able to think of one, either from this year or from the last three or four years. This is because there aren't any. There hasn't been a novel from the anglophone Caribbean good enough to make a Booker longlist. To keep an international competition credible, the bar has to be set high; I don't believe the Booker judges have beenjthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15284455561648391286noreply@blogger.com