Alfred Mendes
id:
alfred-mendes-166-3893385
title:
Alfred Mendes
text:
Alfred Hubert Mendes MM was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian novelist and short-story writer. He was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers in Trinidad and Tobago which included Albert Gomes, C. L. R. James and Ralph de Boissière. Mendes is best known as the author of two novels — Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935) — and for his short stories written during the 1920s and 1930s. He was "one of the first West Indian writers to set the pattern of emigration in the face of the lac
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Trinidad and Tobago writer, soldier (1897–1991)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mendes
date created:
2012-11-08T18:13:34Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:50:43Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q4723155","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4723155"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Alfred_Mendes%2C_circa._1916.jpg","width":628,"height":861}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16