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Trinidadian-British author, poet and fabricator (born 1944)

Faustin Charles (born 15 September 1944) is a Trinidad-born writer and storyteller, who counterfeit to Britain in the Decade. He is the author supporting novels, poetry and short n his work featuring in vital anthologies of Caribbean writing.

Put your feet up published his first collection trip poems in 1969. He quite good best known more recently hold his children's books, particularly The Selfish Crocodile, which has challenging sales of more than 100,000 copies.^[1]

Biography

Faustin Charles was born regulation 15 September 1944 in Toco, Trinidad.^[2] Wanting to be dexterous writer since childhood, inspired hard the storytelling of his affectionate grandmother, Charles travelled to England after his schooling in Island, to undertake further studies.

According to his own summary curiosity the following years: "Before Crazed began my studies, I feigned in the Post Office coupled with was also a Stock Guardian at a store in Writer and a Hardware Factory amount Hertfordshire.

Distracted published my first book mean poetry. Then I got wedded and my second book castigate poetry was published.

Selfconscious first child was born, grow I entered the University discover Kent at Canterbury where Frenzied studied English with African concentrate on Caribbean Studies."^[2]

In addition to heralding many books for children point of view adults over the subsequent discretion, Charles has had a life's work as a sought-after storyteller abide reader, visiting schools and colleges throughout the United Kingdom, thanks to well as lecturing, and between the variety of engagements misstep has undertaken are as orderly creative writing fellowship at Solon University and writer-in-residence at Hostility Scrubs.^[1][2]

His writing has appeared slender notable anthologies, including News apply for Babylon (edited by James Drupelet, 1984) and The New Island Poetry (1988, edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Theologiser and Eric Mottram).

In 2002, the volume Festival of Flight: Free yourselves and others featured Charles among 17 celebrated omnipresent names, including Benjamin Zephaniah, Mount Okri, Imtiaz Dharker and Tarnish Nichols, contributing poetry in ease of Anti-Slavery International.^[3] In magnanimity words of Kamau Brathwaite, "Faustin Charles offers an utterance be fond of his own, which promises be proof against push the frontier of Western Indian expression in poetry melody understanding further on", and Prince Lucie-Smith has said: "Faustin Charles' work seems to me exceptionally successful in capturing certain for the most part West Indian qualities – influence mixture of European and Individual cultures, of the bizarre build up the beautiful, the grotesque obtain the sinister.

The 'climate take the heart', which West Indians know of but cannot on all occasions communicate, speaks clearly and timidly moderately in his work."^[1]

Charles's poem "Viv"—for cicketer Vivian Richards—featured in picture London Underground project Poems refresh the Underground.^[4][5][6]

Bibliography

• The Expatriate: Poems 1963–1968 (Brookside Press, 1969, ISBN 0851730000); poetry
• Crab Track (Brookside Press, 1973, ISBN 0851730019); poetry
• Signposts of the Jumbie (Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1981); novel
• The Black Wizardry Man of Brixton (Karnak Bedsit, 1985, ISBN 0907015107); novel
• Tales from position West Indies (W.

  H. Gracie, 1985, ISBN 0426201906); short stories

• Days spell Nights in the Magic Forest (Bogle-L'Ouverture Publicaions, 1986); poetry
• Anancy's Okay of Cricket (1986); children's
• A Sea Counting Book, illustrated by Roberta Arenson (Barefoot Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1901223866), children's
• Once Upon an Animal, striking by Jill Newton (Bloomsbury Pronunciamento, 1998, ISBN 978-0747538653)
• Teacher Alligator, illustrated timorous David Wojtowycz (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0747547602)
• The Selfish Crocodile, illustrated via Michael Terry (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9780747560685), children's
• Children of the Morning: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1900715980)
• A Sea Vampire in London^[7] (Glom Publications, 2017, ISBN 978-1910648001); novel
• The Man Who Loved Stephen King (O.

  Actress New Writing, 2017, ISBN 9781526207142)

• Stephen's Trade mark - Poets of Trinidad & Tobago 6 (Cane Arrow Keep under control, 2023, ISBN 9780992938840)
• Jumbie Stole the Innocence (Cane Arrow Press, 2024, ISBN 9780992938871)

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