older Caribbean fiction. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and others, used the polished language of the coloniser and showed in doing so that they were equal to the British writers who made a name for themselves. Ladoo, on the other hand, shows his confidence by selecting Creole, as if to say, "this is the dialect of the common man, why should I try to gentrify it?" In doing so, he achieves an authenticity that is furthered by the immersion of his characters in the kind of vocabulary and sentence structure that the poverty-stricken people would use. In addition, his use of onomatopoeia heightens the effect of the sounds of movement in people and nature, and increases the animism that makes the characters even more authentic. Indigenous people all over the world have believed in the almost god-like power of nature. Ladoo amplifies this distinctive belief in the intentionality given to thunder or lightning or reptiles. The University of Toronto Mississauga campus (formerly Erindale College) offers to students The Harold Sonny Ladoo Book Prize for Creative Writing every year. References Further reading Dennis Lee, On the Death of Harold Ladoo, San Francisco: Kanchenjunga Press, 1976. Clement H. Wyke, "Harold Ladoo's Alternate Worlds: Canada and Carib Island", Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982), pp. 39–49. Margaret Paul Joseph, Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction. Greenwood Press, 1992. 1945 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century male writers Canadian Hindus Canadian male novelists Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian writers of Asian descent Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to Canada Trinidad and Tobago Hindus Trinidad and Tobago male writers Trinidad and Tobago novelists Trinidad and Tobago people of Indian descent