List Of Writers

WHITE, LANDEG

Quinta Terra da Vela, Rua do Riguerinho 19, Carapinheira, 260–308 Mafra, Portugal
Tel: (00351) 21 9863062
Website: www.landegwhite.com
Email: landeg.white@clix.pt

Landeg White was born in Taffs Well and has worked in Trinidad, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Zambia and York. He now teaches at the Universidade Aberta (Open University) in Lisbon. His fifteen books include studies of VS Naipaul and of southern African praise poetry, histories of Malawi and Mozambique and six collections of poetry. His translation of Camões The Lusíads won the Texeira Gomes prize for 1998. He is currently writing a biography of John Gabriel Stedman and preparing a complete translation of Camoes’ lyrical poetry. Landeg is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications
V.S.Naipaul: A Critical Introduction (Macmillan, 1975)
For Captain Stedman (Peterloo Poets, 1983)
Magomero: Portrait of an African Village (Cambridge University Press 1987 & 1989)
View from the Stockade (Dangaroo Press, 1991)
Bounty (Dangaroo Press, 1993)
Bridging the Zambezi: A Colonial Folly (Palgrave Macmillan, 1993) 
Where The Angolans Are Playing Football: Selected and New Poetry (Parthian, 2003)
Arab Work (Parthian, 2006)

Contributed to:
Literature and Society in South Africa (Longman Studies in African Literature) (with Tim Couzens) (Longman International Education, 1985)
After Apartheid: Renewal of the South African Economy 
(editor with John Suckling) (Africa World Press, 1988)
The Lusaids by Luis de Camoes (editor and translator) (Oxford Paperbacks, 1998)
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) (translator) (Princeton University Press, 2002)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Readings from/ discussion of own poetry
2. Travel and translation

Age range: older secondary school, university, adults

Special Requirements: help with travel expenses