B.A., M.Phil.
Novelist and essayist
B.A., M.Phil.
Novelist and essayist
Born in 1944 in Calcutta Settlement, Trinidad, Merle Hodge was educated
in the
island until 1962 when she left for England to study French at
London
University. After graduating she travelled extensively in
Europe, and
lived for a time in Africa, visiting Senegal and Gambia. In
1970 she
published her first novel, Crick,Crack Monkey. In the same
year
she went
to Trinidad and took a teaching job in a school in
Port-of-Spain where she
taught English, French and West Indian Literature.
Ms Hodge is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Language &
Linguistics at the
University of West Indies, St Augustine. She has co-ordinated
seminars dealing with "The
Rearing of the Caribbean Child", "The Media and National Development" and
many other conferences. She has written extensively as a
freelance journalist and has recently published a novel titled The
Life of Laetitia, and several short stories for children,
essays, articles on Caribbean family, Caribbean language, women's
issues, and education.
