Merle Hodge

Merle Hodge, born in 1944 at Curepe, in Trinidad, the daughter of an immigration officer, won in 1962 the island scholarship reserved for girls, which took her to University College London. There she studied French and in 1967 devoted her master's thesis to the poetry of the Guianese Léon Damas. Having returned at the beginning of the seventies after years of travel, she taught French and then at the University of the West Indies, directed from 1979 to 1983 the school curricula of Grenada and received in 2022 the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award.

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