in 1985 the honorary degree of DLitt by the University of the West Indies. In 1969 he was awarded the Trinidad & Tobago Hummingbird Medal Gold for Literature, and in 1994 he was (posthumously) given another national award, the Chaconia Medal Gold for Literature. In 2012 he was honoured with a NALIS Lifetime Achievement Literary Award for his contributions to Trinidad and Tobago's literature. On what would have been his 95th birthday, 20 May 2018, Selvon was honoured with a Google Doodle. Bibliography A Brighter Sun (1952) A Meap Story (1954) An Island is a World (1955) The Lonely Londoners (1956) Ways of Sunlight, short stories (1957) Turn Again Tiger (1959) I Hear Thunder (1963) The Housing Lark (1965) The Plains of Caroni (1970) Those Who Eat the Cascadura (1972) Moses Ascending (1975) Moses Migrating (1983) Foreday Morning (1989) Eldorado West One, collected one-act plays (1989) Highway in the Sun and Other Plays (1991) Filmography (as writer) Pressure (1976), co-written with Horace Ové Further reading Critical works on Selvon include: Susheila Nasta (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon, Washington: Three Continents Press, 1988. Clement Wyck, Sam Selvon's dialectal style and fictional strategy (1991). Margaret Paul Joseph, "Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction", Greenwood Press, 1992. Austin Clarke, Passage Back Home: a personal reminiscence of Samuel Selvon, Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994. Mark S. Looker, Atlantic Passages: History, community, and language in the fiction of Sam Selvon, New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Roydon Salick, The Novels of Samuel Selvon, Greenwood Press, 2001. Curdella Forbes, From Nation to Diaspora: Sam Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender, Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2005. References Other sources External links Bill Schwarz, "Samuel Selvon: 'The Lonely Londoners' - 1956", London Fictions. Trinidad and Tobago novelists British people of Indo-Trinidadian descent Trinidad and Tobago people of Indian descent Recipients of the Chaconia Medal 1923 births 1994 deaths 20th-century novelists International Writing Program alumni People from San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago journalists Recipients of the Hummingbird Medal People associated with the University of Dundee Trinidad and Tobago male writers 20th-century male writers 20th-century journalists Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United Kingdom Royal Naval Reserve personnel