Austin Clarke

Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe in 2002, Austin Clarke has published ten novels, six short story collections, and three memoirs in the United States, England, Canada, Australia, and Holland. Storm of Fortune, the second novel in his Toronto Trilogy about the lives of Barbadian immigrants, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in 1973. The Origin of Waves won the Rogers Communications Writers’ Development Trust Prize for Fiction in 1997. In 1999, his ninth novel,The Question, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. In 2003 he had a private audience with Queen Elisabeth in honour of his Commonwealth Prize for his tenth novel, The Polished Hoe. In 1992 Austin Clarke was honored with a Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and in 1997, Frontier College granted him a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1998 he was invested with the Order of Canada, and he has received four honorary doctorates. In 1999 he received the Martin Luther King Junior Award for Excellence in Writing.

Books by Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

The Austin Clarke Library

’Membering

In Your Crib

More

Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack

Where The Sun Shines Best

Collected Poems: Austin Clarke

In This City

There Are No Elders

Love and Sweet Food

The Question

The Polished Hoe

Choosing His Coffin

The Origin of Waves

Storm of Fortune

The Bigger Light

The Meeting Point