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Trinidad and Tobago

Author · Trinidad and Tobago

Ismith Khan

Died in 2002

Ismith Khan was born in 1925 in the capital of Trinidad, in a house overlooking Woodford Square. A former pupil of Queen's Royal College and a reporter on the Trinidad Guardian, he went to study in the United States, sociology at the New School in New York then creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He then taught writing at universities in California and New York, published three novels and short stories, and died in 2002.

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