Ralph de Boissière

Ralph de Boissière, born on 6 October 1907 in Port of Spain, the son of an attorney, discovered the Russian writers at Queen's Royal College. He dreamed of being a concert pianist, became a sales representative, learned about the lives of workers in that way and committed himself to the left and to trade unionism, while writing with the young authors gathered around the island's first literary journal. Deprived of work because of his political activities, he left for Chicago in 1947 and settled in 1948 in Melbourne, where he was a labourer and then an office worker, and joined the Communist Party of Australia. He died in Melbourne in 2008.

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