Activity: Tea/talk
Ticketed event: Advance sales only
Date: 13 December 2018
Edgar Mittelholzer was born on the 16th of December 1909. Shortly after Mittelholzer’s death in 1965, Jan Carew wrote: “He was the first Guianese novelist to gain recognition and the first West Indian writer from anywhere in the Caribbean to achieve international status as a novelist. His output was extraordinarily varied and amounted to twenty-three books over fifteen years.” At the peak of his fame, he was, it’s probably fair to say, a household name in parts of the English-speaking world and his books would sell an average of 8000 copies.
This event paid tribute to Mittelholzer by invoking some of his early memories along with extracts from a few of his novels and parts of AJ Seymour’s inaugural lecture in 1967 of the Edgar Mittelholzer Memorial Lectures (which Seymour was instrumental in setting up).