Literary Birthday – 8 June – George Lamming

George Lamming was born on 8 June 1927 and died on 4 June 2022.

George Lamming Quotes

1. The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
2. In a way, reading is like eating; whatever goes into the body has some influence on the metabolism. You are absorbing things.
3. I was always taken by language—the arrangement of words—and that was the appeal of Jane Austen… I would say my influences really came from those writers whose prose had a certain kind of music

George Lamming was a novelist, essayist, and poet from Barbados. He wrote about decolonisation and reconstruction in Caribbean nations. He was the author of In The Castle Of My Skin. Lamming’s later novels included Water with Berries and Natives of My Person.

Source for photograph Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

by Amanda Patterson
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