Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Selvon NPG x132969

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Trinidadian-born Selvon worked in his native country in the late 1940s as a literary editor at the Sunday Guardian and as a journalist for the Evening News (1945-50). He published several short stories and poems under pseudonyms before moving to London in 1950. Selvon's first novel A Brighter Sun (1952) received international acclaim and established him as an important voice for West Indian literature in London. Selvon's most celebrated novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956) was the first of three London novels narrated in the dialect... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.