Kenneth Ramchand
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Academic and politician from Trinidad and Tobago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Ramchand is a Trinidad and Tobago academic and writer, who is widely respected as "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction". 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 , had a transformational effect on the syllabus of the University of the West Indies and the internationalization of West Indian literature as an academic discipline.
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