Mendes, Alfred H. 1897-1991
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Personality
- His Black fauns, c1984:t.p. (Alfred H. Mendes) half-title (Alfred Hubert Mendes) p. 4 of cover (b. in Trinidad 1897; novelist; lives in Barbados)
- The man who ran away, 2006:t.p. (Alfred H. Mendes) p. xi (the Portuguese Creole writer Alfred Hubert Mendes was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1897, and died in Barbados in 1991)
Alfred Hubert Mendes MM (18 November 1897 – 1991) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian novelist and short-story writer. He was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers (named after the literary magazine The Beacon) 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 lack of publishing houses and the small reading public in the West Indies." Mendes' experiences in World War I were the inspiration for the 2019 film 1917, written and directed by his grandson Sam Mendes.
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