Lawrence Scott FRSL was born on in Trinidad, 1943 and is a novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago, who divides his time between London and Port of Spain.
11 Facts About Lawrence Scott
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Lawrence Scott has worked as a teacher of English and Drama at schools in London and in Trinidad.
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Lawrence Scott's stories have been much anthologised and he won the Tom-Gallon Short-Story Award in 1986.
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Lawrence Scott was educated at Boys' RC School, San Fernando, Trinidad, and by the Benedictine monks at the Abbey School, Mount Saint Benedict, Tunapuna, before leaving at the age of 19 for England.
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Between 1973 and 2006, Lawrence Scott worked as a teacher at various schools in London and in Trinidad, including Sedgehill, London; Thomas Calton Comprehensive, London; Presentation College, San Fernando, Trinidad; Aranguez Junior Secondary, Trinidad; Tulse Hill Comprehensive and Archbishop Tenison's, London.
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Lawrence Scott was a Writer-in-Residence at the University of the West Indies in 2004.
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Lawrence Scott has researched extensively the life and times of Trinidad's 19th-century artist Michel-Jean Cazabon, which work informs his 2012 novel Light Falling on Bamboo.
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In 2019, Lawrence Scott was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Lawrence Scott's published books include novels, a short-story collection, a work of non-fiction and a volume of poems.
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Lawrence Scott comes nearest to any English language author I know to carrying off that difficult task of evoking a place that is real and at the same time completely other.
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Lawrence Scott's 2021 work, Dangerous Freedom, is a historical novel that draws on the life story of Dido Belle.