Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

183 followed by The Schoolmaster (1968), about the impact of the arrival of a new teacher in a remote community. His third novel, The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979), regarded by many critics as his best work, describes the rejuvenating effects of carnival on the inhabitants of a slum on the outskirts of Port of Spain. In The Wine of Astonishment (1982) he examines popular religion through the story of a member of the Baptist Church in a rural village. A collection of his plays, Jestina’s Calypso and Other Plays, was published in 1984. His novel, Salt, was published in 1996 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) in 1997. He even authored a children’s book entitled Crawfie the Crapaud and a collection of his essays are published in Glowing in the dark, Selected Essays. He co-wrote the script for the film Joebell and America with daughter Asha Lovelace in 2004. There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. • 1988: Chaconia Medal Gold • 1997: His novel, Salt , won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book • 2011: Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe for his book Is Just a Movie OLGA (BOOS) MAVROGORDATO (1903-1993) O lgaMavrogordato helped to run theBoos family firm, J.N. Harriman, for many decades and had a passion for the history of Trinidad, helping researchers and writers. She also collected manuscripts and rare books, and published in 1977 a well researched book on local history, Voices in the Street. THERESE MILLS (1931-2014) S ince the late 1940’s she has been a journalist, editor, author before branching out on her own to help build the Newsday Newspaper as