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'''Samuel "Sam" Selvon''' (20 MayMaggio 1923–16 AprilAprile 1994)<ref name=Britannica>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/533759/Samuel-Selvon "Samuel Selvon"], Encyclopædia Britannica.</ref> wasera aun artista originario di [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad]]-born writer. HisLa 1956sua novelnovella del 1956 ''[[The Lonely Londoners]]'' is("I ground-breakingLondinesi insolitari") itsrisulta useall'avanguardia ofnell'uso creoliseddell'Inglese Englishcreolo, ordetto anche "[[nation language]]", for narrativenella asnarrativa welle asnel dialoguedialogo.
==Life and work==
Samuel Dickson Selvon wasnasce born ina [[San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago|San Fernando]] ina thesud south ofdi Trinidad, the sixth of seven children.<ref name=ODNB>Kenneth Ramchand, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/69606 "Selvon, Samuel Dickson (1923–1994)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2006. Accessed 19 November 2014.</ref> HisI parentssuoi weregenitori erano [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|Indian]]: hissuo fatherpadre wasera a first-generationun [[Christian]] immigrantdi prima generazione, immigrato da from [[Madras]] ande hissua mother was amadre una[[Christian]] [[Anglo-Indian]]. HisIl maternalsuo grandfathernonno wasmaterno era [[Scottish people|Scottish]] ande hisla maternalsua grandmothernonna wasmaterna era un'[[Indian people|Indian]].<ref>Louis James, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sam-selvon-1371231.html "Obituary: Sam Selvon"], ''The Independent'', 20 April 1994.</ref>. HeSelvon wasviene educatedistruito ata San Fernando, al [[Naparima College]], Sanprima Fernando,di beforeandarsene leavingall'età atdi the15 ageanni, ofper 15motivi to worklavorativi. Helavorò wascome amarconista wirelessper operatorla withbranca thelocale localdella branchRegia ofRiserva theNavale ([[Royal Naval Reserve]]), fromdal 1940 toal 1945. Thereafter,In heseguito movedsi northtrasferì toa Nord, [[Port of Spain]], ande fromdal 1945 toal 1950, workedlavorò forcome thereporter per il ''[[Trinidad Guardian]]'' ase aper reporterqualche andtempo foranche anella timesua onsezione its literary pageletteraria. In thisquesto period,periodo hecominciò begana writingscrivere storiesracconti ande descriptivepezzi piecesdescrittivi, mostlygran underparte asotto varietydiversi ofpsdeudonimi pseudonyms includingquali Michael Wentworth, Esses, Ack-Ack, ande Big Buffer.<ref>[http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=84 Author profile] at Peepal Tree Press.</ref> Much ofMolti thisdi earlyquesti writingscritti isiniziali tosi bepossono foundtrovare in ''Foreday Morning'' (eds [[Kenneth Ramchand]] and Susheila Nasta, 1989).
Negli anni '50 Selvon movedsi trasferì a toLondra [[London, England]], indove thelavorò 1950s,come wherereceptionist heper worked as a clerk for the Indianl'Ambasciata EmbassyIndiana, whilededicandosi writingalla inscrittura hisnel sparetempo timelibero. <ref name=Britannica /> HisI shortsuoi storiesracconti andbrevi poetrye appearedle insue variouspoesie publications,apparvero in varie includingpubblicazioni thecome ''[[London Magazine]]'', ''[[New Statesman]]'', ande ''The Nation''. InA London heLondra alsolavorò workedanche withcon thela [[BBC]], producingproducendo twodue televisioncopioni scriptsper la televisione, ''"Anansi the Spidermanl'',uomo andragno" ''Homee Sweet"Casa dolce India''." <ref>[http://caribbean.halloffame.tripod.com/Samuel_Selvon.html "Samuel Selvon"], Caribbean Hall of Fame.</ref>
Selvon wasfu aanche fellowun inmembro creativedi writingscrittura atcreativa theall' Università di Dundee [[University of Dundee]] fromdal 1975 untilal 1977.<ref name="Dundee">{{cite web|title=RU 258/7/4 Department of English. Creative Writing, publicity material|url=http://arccat.dundee.ac.uk/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=((text)=%27selvon%27)|website=Archive Services Online Catalogue|publisher=University of Dundee|accessdate=30 October 2016}}</ref> InAlla thefine latedegli 1970sanni '70 Selvon movedsi trasferì toad [[Alberta]], Canada, ande foundlavorò acome jobinsegnante teachingdi creativescrittura writingcreativa asall' aUniversità visitingdi professor at theVictoria [[University of Victoria]]. WhenQuando thatterminò job endedquell'ingaggio, heprese tookil aposto jobdi ascustode a janitor. At theAll' [[University of Calgary]] indi Alberta for a few months before becoming writer-in-residence there, he wasvenne largelylargamente ignoredignorato bydallo thestabilimento Canadianletterario literary establishmentcanadese, withricevendo hispochissime worksrecensioni receivingdurante nola reviewssua duringresidenza. his residency.
On a return trip to Trinidad Selvon died of [[respiratory failure]] due to extensive [[bronchopneumonia]] and chronic [[lung disease]] on 16 April 1994 at [[Piarco International Airport]]; his ashes were subsequently interred at the [[University of the West Indies]] cemetery, [[St Augustine, Trinidad]].<ref name=ODNB />
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