Lamming, George

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Lamming, George (1927– ) Caribbean novelist and poet. His native Barbados forms the background to his first novel, In The Castle of My Skin (1953). The Emigrants (1954) describes the problems facing West Indians in England, where he settled in the 1950s. Later novels include Water with Berries (1971) and Natives of My Person (1972).

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