Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Barbados Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
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A novelist and essayist whose In the Castle of My Skin (1953) is one of the founding novels of Caribbean literature.
Lamming's essays, gathered in The Pleasures of Exile (1960), examined the colonial relationship through Shakespeare's The Tempest. He taught at universities across the Caribbean and the world.
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