T ribute to George Lamming by Alfrena Jamie Pierre TRIBUTE R ex Nettleford in his introduction to George Lamming’s book, Coming, Coming Home: Conversations II: Western Education and the Caribbean Intellectual Coming, Coming, Coming Home, asserted that the Barbadian writer was, “one of the Caribbean’s finest intellects and foremost literary artists”. The sustainability of Lamming’s literary output and its consequential contribution to Caribbean letters and scholarship are irrefutable. Lamming was distinguished as one whose writing, along with Samuel Selvon , V.S. Naipaul and Andrew Salkey , was instrumental to the formation of the Anglophone Caribbean literary canon in the 1950s. This esteemed Caribbean novelist received numerous accolades for his contribution to Caribbean letters and intellectualism. In 1958, Lamming received the Somerset Maugham Award for literature. In 1980, he was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Letters from The University of the West Indies, and in 2011, the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists bestowed the Caribbean Hibiscus Prize upon Lamming for his lifetime contribution to the arts; he was the first beneficiary of this award. In 2013, he received the Clement Payne Appreciation Award , and in 2014, he won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Lifetime Achievement award for his work.
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