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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MEET THE AUTHOR:
Valerie Belgrave will be on a tour of some cities in the USA this month.
MONDAY 14TH APRIL AT 10:30A.M.
Catch her on the radio at CHICAGO CONNECTON with Greg Murray on WBBM-FM
Wednesday, April 16, 1:30-3:30pm
See her in person at…Columbia College Library, 3rd Floor , 624 S. Michigan for “Ti Marie: History and Identity in the Caribbean”
Thursday 24th April at T&T Consulate in New York
(for details write to timarie11@yahoo.com)
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Valerie Belgrave is a Caribbean Woman Writer, as well as a visual artist. She lives and works on the island of Trinidad. Influenced by the Caribbean’s great literary tradition, by her uncharacteristic interest in popular literature and by a passion for history, she has, seemingly by instinct, united several genres. Her artist’s eye is also very present in the novel infusing the descriptions of her exotic island home and of course, the book cover. The covers of her novels feature paintings by the author.
Of Ti Marie, she says “, my desire was to create a traditional but meaningful fairy tale which acknowledged the charm of the romance canon, but didn’t force me to conspire against myself as a black person in order to enjoy it.”
As a writer of Caribbean Fiction she has produced four Romance Novels: Ti Marie, Sunvalley Romance*, Tigress* and Dance The Water. She has also written the play Night of the Wolf which was successfully performed in Port of Spain and Kingston, Jamaica.
A Black Writer
As a Black Writer and specifically, a Black Woman Writer, Belgrave's fiction usually incorporates a focus on race relations and often features mixed race characters and Multiracial relationships in which the societal or familial pressures are the obstacles in the relationship.
A Feminist writer
With her strong female characters, Belgrave may be described as a Feminist Writer or a feminist romance writer whose interest is in creating "game free" relationships between men and women, relationships in which her female characters can be fully self-actualized.
Contact Information
To contact the author, to purchase books or to send comments:
timarie11@yahoo.com
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