Andrew Salkey

Andrew Salkey was born on 30 January 1928 in Colón, Panama, to Jamaican parents, and was raised in Jamaica by his grandmother and his mother, a schoolteacher. Educated in Kingston and then at Munro College, he left in 1952 for London, where he taught English in a school in the south of the city and worked for the BBC's Caribbean service; in 1966 he co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement. He published novels, poems and children's books, taught from 1976 at Hampshire College, in Massachusetts, and died in Amherst on 28 April 1995.

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• NovelA Quality of ViolenceAndrew Salkey · 1959Literature