Novelist Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She is the author of five novels, including By Such a Parting Light, published in 2024. Her numerous scholarly works include Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, and the co-authored Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole, Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean.
Barbara Lalla
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Biography
Years Attended
2011, 2011 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2013, 2013 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2017, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2020, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2021 Workshop Facilitator, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2026 Siparia Festival Participant
Barbara Lalla
2020 OCM Bocas Prize judge, Author, Judge
Trinidad & Tobago
