Kenneth Ramchand (born 1939) is a Trinidadian academic and writer, who is widely respected as "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction".Ruel Johnson, "The Arts Journal fills void: Explores contemporary literature, art in Guyana, Caribbean", Guyana Chronicle, 27 June 2004. He has written extensively on many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon, as well as editing several significant cultural publications. His seminal text, The West Indian Novel and Its Background (1970), had a transformational effect on the syllabus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the internationalization of West Indian literature as an academic discipline."Kenneth Ramchand", NALIS. Career Born in Trinidad  , Ramchand holds an MA and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where he attended as a scholarship student (1959–63).David Clover, "Dispersed or Destroyed: Archives, the West indian Students' Union, and Public Memory", in Sandra Courtman (ed.), Society For Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, Vol. 6, 2005, p. 6.Takis Kayalis, Anastasia Natsina (eds), Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning, Continuum, 2010. Awards In 1996, Ramchand was awarded a Trinidad  Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold for his work in Literature, Education and Culture. Awards 1987: BWIA Excellence in Journalism award 1996: Trinidad  Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold (for Literature, Education, and Culture) 2014: Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
Kenneth Ramchand (born 1939) is a Trinidad and Tobago academic and writer, who is widely respected as "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction".Ruel Johnson, "The Arts Journal fills void: Explores contemporary literature, art in Guyana, Caribbean", Guyana Chronicle, 27 June 2004. He has written extensively on many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon, as well as editing several significant cultural publications. His seminal text, The West Indian Novel and Its Background (1970), had a transformational effect on the syllabus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the internationalization of West Indian literature as an academic discipline."Kenneth Ramchand", NALIS. Career Born in Trinidad and Tobago , Ramchand holds an MA and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where he attended as a scholarship student (1959–63).David Clover, "Dispersed or Destroyed: Archives, the West indian Students' Union, and Public Memory", in Sandra Courtman (ed.), Society For Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, Vol. 6, 2005, p. 6.Takis Kayalis, Anastasia Natsina (eds), Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning, Continuum, 2010. Awards In 1996, Ramchand was awarded a Trinidad and Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold for his work in Literature, Education and Culture. Awards 1987: BWIA Excellence in Journalism award 1996: Trinidad and Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold (for Literature, Education, and Culture) 2014: Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
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