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Merle Hodge


Born
Curepe, Trinidad and Tobago

Merle Hodge (born 1944) is a Trinidadian novelist and critic. Her 1970 novel Crick Crack, Monkey is a classic of West Indian literature.

Merle Hodge was born in 1944, in Curepe, Trinidad, the daughter of an immigration officer. She received both her elementary and high-school education in Trinidad, and as a student of Bishop Anstey High School, she won the Trinidad and Tobago Girls' Island Scholarship in 1962. The scholarship allowed her to attend University College, London, where she pursued studies in French. In 1965 she completed her B.A. Hons. and received a Master of Philosophy degree in 1967, the focus of which concerned the poetry of the French Guyanese writer Léon Damas.

Hodge did quite a bit of traveling after obtaining her degree, w ...more

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Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribb...
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For the Life of Laetitia
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“Who ask
don't get
who don't ask
don't want
who don't want
don't get
who don't get
don't care”
― Merle Hodge
tags: caribbean-folk-saying, caring, desire, not-caring, not-wanting, wanting, yearning
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