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Lakshmi Persaud is a Trinidad-born, British-based writer who resides in London, England. She is the author of five novels: ''Butterfly in the Wind'' (1990), ''Sastra'' (1993), ''For the Love of My Name'' (2000), ''Raise the Lanterns High'' (2004) and ''Daughters of Empire'' (2012). ==Personal life== She was born in 1939 in the small village of Streatham Lodge, later called Pasea Village, in what was then still rural Tunapuna, Trinidad. Her forefathers, Hindus from Uttar Pradesh, moved from India to the Caribbean in the 1890s. Both her parents were in the retail business. She attended the Tunapuna Government Primary School, St. Augustine Girls’ High School and St. Joseph’s Convent, Port of Spain.〔 She left Trinidad in 1957 to study for a B.A. and her Ph.D. at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland and her postgraduate Diploma in Education at University of Reading, United Kingdom. Her doctoral thesis was "The Need for and the Possibilities of Agricultural Diversification in Barbados, West Indies" 〔( WorldCat )〕 Dr. Lakshmi Persaud is the wife of economist Professor Bishnodat Persaud with whom she moved to the United Kingdom in 1974. She has three children, psychiatrist Rajendra Persaud, financial economist Professor Avinash Persaud, and Sharda Dean. She has lived mainly in the UK since the 1970s, with a two-year spell in Jamaica in the 1990s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lakshmi Persaud」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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