Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Bibliography Novels Witchbroom (Allison & Busby, 1992, ; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1993, ) – shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book (1993); read on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime (1993; adapted by Margaret Busby, produced by Marina Salandy-Brown). 25th-anniversary edition, Papillote Press, 2017. Aelred's Sin (Allison & Busby, 1998, ) – winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in Canada & Caribbean (1999). Night Calypso (Allison & Busby, 2004, ) – shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in Canada & the Caribbean (2005). Light Falling on Bamboo (Tindal Street Press, 2012, ). Dangerous Freedom (Papillote Press, 2021, ). Short stories Ballad for the New World (Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1994, ) – includes the story "The House of Funerals" (Tom-Gallon Trust Award, 1986). Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater (Papilotte Press, 2015; ) Non-fiction Golconda: Our Voices Our Lives (UTT Press, 2009), editor. Further reading Aiyejina, Funso, 2003. "Self Portrait – Lawrence Scott novelist, short story writer and poet in conversation with Funso Aiyejina" (interview conducted 16 August 1998, Maraval, Port-of Spain), Trinidad and Tobago Review 20, no. 12, December 1998, pp. 10–11, 14–16, 19. Ferguson, James. 2000. "The Worlds of Lawrence Scott – beatprofile", Caribbean Beat, No. 43 May/June 2000, pp. 48–52. Maes-Jelinek, Hena, "Lawrence Scott's Caribbeanness: A personal reading of Witchbroom and Aelred's Sin", The Literary Criterion 35, 2000. See also Caribbean literature Caribbean poetry Postcolonial literature References External links Lawrence Scott's website. Press release, University of the West Indies. Stewart Brown, "The Worlds of Lawrence Scott", The Caribbean Voice profile. Andrew Johnson, "NAME IN THE FRAME: Mysterious Caribbean artist who inspired Lawrence Scott's novel", Camden New Journal, 8 November 2012. "Lawrence Scott reads at Paper Based book store Normandie Hotel, Trinidad", YouTube video. Gemma Bowes, "Writer Lawrence Scott on Trinidad: carnival, calypso and ecotourism", The Guardian, 24 April 2015. Njelle W. Hamilton, "On Memory and the Archives of Caribbean History — A Conversation with Lawrence Scott", Wasafiri, 2017. 1943 births Living people Trinidad and Tobago novelists British writers 20th-century novelists 21st-century novelists Trinidad and Tobago non-fiction writers Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United Kingdom 20th-century short story writers 21st-century short story writers Trinidad and Tobago male writers 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers Male non-fiction writers