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Trinidad and Tobago

Author · Trinidad and Tobago

Harold Sonny Ladoo

Died in 1973

Harold Sonny Ladoo was born in 1945 in Trinidad, into a family descended from Indian indentured labourers. He emigrated to Toronto in 1968 with his wife and child, worked nights in restaurants and studied English at Erindale College of the University of Toronto. His first novel appeared in 1972; he was preparing a trilogy on life in the Caribbean and in Canada when he died, in 1973. His second novel, Yesterdays, appeared in 1974.

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