One of the great figures of Caribbean literature, George Lamming, author of *In the Castle of My Skin* and the *The Pleasures of Exile*, has left us. It was a thrill to meet George at Brown University in 2005 & to correspond thereafter. I found him a kind, wise, deep-souled man. https://t.co/uLHnobgENk

The great Bajan intellectual - George Lamming - has died. His In the Castle of My Skin (1953) is a classic, but then the book that influenced me the most was The Pleasures of Exile (1960) - cultural critique at its highest. Here he is in Cuba, 2011. Pens down in tribute. https://t.co/6QgIIiMTTX

Returning to the first few pages of George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile: “Different as they may be in their present state of existence, those alive and those now Dead—their ambitions point to a similar end. They are interested in their Future.” https://t.co/QwPuLjO8Ng