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Caribbean author donates books to the Grenada Community Library

This story was posted 4 years ago
28 March 2018
in Education, Youth
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Richardo Keens-Douglas, Cheryl Kirton and GCL Treasurer Grace Charles unveil the George Parfitt collection.
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by Curlan Campbell, NOW Grenada

  • Dr George Parfitt has donated 1,200 books of Caribbean literature
  • Grenada Community Library and Resource Centre opened in 2014

Dr George Parfitt, author of “Being Anglo-Caribbean,” has donated 1,200 books from his personal collection of Caribbean literature to the Grenada Community Library and Resource Centre. The books were accumulated over a 15-year period and includes fictional, historical, poetry and contemporary novels. Authors include Kei Miller, Marlon James, Derek Walcott and Walter Houston Clark.

The library opens its doors to the public in 2014, operating previously under the name Mt Zion Library, from a room in the Arnold John Building in St George’s with a few boxes of books and a membership of about 20 children. That membership has now grown to more than 2,500 members, including adults.

A Trinidadian by birth, Dr Parfitt has lived in England since 1954. Educated at the University of Bristol, he later worked at the University of Nottingham where he published many academic texts, mainly on 17-century literature.

Dr Parfitt, who resides in Nottinghamshire, learned about the library from Professor Alison Donnell, Head of the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia who has been a friend of the library since its inception. Once the contract was made with author and co-founder of the library, Oonya Kempadoo, WI Freight Shipping sponsored the shipment of the books.

The George Parfitt collection at the Grenada Community Library and Resource Centre

The official launch of the George Parfitt Collection was held on Tuesday, 27 March 2018. Children’s author and playwright Richardo Keens-Douglas introduced the collection and encouraged patrons to appreciate the enormous importance of reading to a child’s academic development. “As a children’s author, I am really into pushing reading of books because one way to destroy a child’s love of reading is to make sure there are no books of any kind around and to give them no way to read. If you want to talk about freedom of the mind, go to a library. When you are walking into a library you are walking into a realm of possibility, ideas, history, entertainment in all its forms. It is a place that is safe to access information.”

Keens-Douglas took the opportunity to remind Grenadians of the obligation to clamour for the reopening of the public libraries as a matter of urgency. “We have an obligation to support libraries…and encourage others to protest the closure of libraries, because if we don’t value libraries then you do not value information, culture, wisdom and creativity and are an accomplice in silencing the voices of the past.”

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  1. Anonymous says:
    4 years ago

    Dear Margaret,

    Just in case you visit this site again, I see that George sadly died a couple of months ago. I am just one of very many people who will remember George’s teaching at Nottingham University with great fondness. He was a very kind, gentle and humane man with an excellent sense of humour – and someone who wore his deep scholarship lightly. May he rest in peace.

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  2. [email protected] says:
    4 years ago

    i am so moved by this as George PArfitt is my older brother ,I live in Australia and ws born on Canada but spent my early childhood in Trinidad , and continue to be interested in all things Caribean. Bless you all

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  3. [email protected] says:
    4 years ago

    I am so moved by this as George Parfitt is my older Brother ,I live in Australia and was born in Canada ,but spent early Child hood in Trinidad and continu to be interested in all things Caribean , Bless you all ,

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