Novelist, travel writer, and poet. Born in Panama, at the age of 2 Salkey left for Jamaica, the focus of much of his literary work. There, cared for by his grandmother until the arrival of his mother (his father stayed in Panama), he attended St George's College and Munro College. It was at this point that Salkey made his first connections with the London literary scene through the submission of his writing to the BBC's Caribbean Voices. When he migrated in 1952 to study English Literature at the University of London, he continued his artistic pursuits, and through further involvement in Caribbean Voices, began to build up many contacts within the arts industry.
These proved useful when, in 1966, Salkey joined forces with Edward Kamau Brathwaite and John La Rose to create the Caribbean Artists' Movement CAM However such contacts were also invaluable ...
