Karl Sealy (1922-1993) was a teacher, chess player, poet and short story writer from Barbados. Edward Baugh called him "one of the finest, most compelling West Indian writers of prose fiction".[1]
From 1945 to 1965 Sealy contributed 20 short stories to BIM, the Barbadian little magazine. His short story 'The Pieces of Silver' has been on the English GCE syllabus.[1]
In 2003 a chess championship, the Karl Sealy Memorial Open, was established in his memory.[2] Visit His Website for more about Karl Sealy
Works edit
Short stories edit
- 'My friend Shuja-UL-Hassan', Bim Vol. 5, pp. 8–9
- 'Money to Burn', Bim 5, pp. 38–40, 89-91
- 'The Bargain', Bim 6, pp. 14–15. Republished in Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, Special Edition (November 2007)
- 'The Ping-Pong', Bim 6, pp. 40–43
- 'The Meeting', Bim 7, pp. 20–21, 91-93
- 'Dawn', Bim 8, pp. 55–56
- 'The Fields Are High', Bim 9, 60-63. Reprinted in Cecil Gray, ed. 2000, Response: A Course in Narrative and Comprehension and Composition for Caribbean Studies
- 'The Tree', Bim 10, pp. 154–61
- 'The Tacit Truth', Bim 11, pp. 232–236
- 'The White Baby', Bim 12, pp. 338–341
- 'Dream of Gold', Bim 13, pp. 16–18
- 'The Tryst', Bim 14, pp. 91–92
- 'The Cool of the Day', Bim 15, pp. 166–68
- 'Cup of Tea', Bim 17, pp. 34–36
- (with R. Atherly) 'The Song of the Fiddler', Bim 18, pp. 90–92
- 'The Day the Sun was Hidden', Bim 19, pp. 229–232
- 'The Hardings', Bim 21, pp. 44–48
- 'The Sun Was a Slaver', Bim 26, pp. 77–79. Reprinted in Barbara Howes, ed. 1971, From the Green Antilles
- 'My Fathers Before Me', Bim Vol. 27 (1958), pp. 135–38. Reprinted in Michael Marland, ed. 1978, Caribbean Stories; in Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, ed. 1996, The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature; and in Dean Baldwin and Patrick J. Quinn, ed. 2006, An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction.
- 'The Pieces of Silver', Bim Vol. 40, 279-284. Reprinted in Roy Narinesingh and Clifford Narinesingh, ed. 1980, Insights: An Anthology of Short Stories; in Beverley Naidoo, Chris Donovan, Alan Hicks and Michael Marland, ed. 1997, Global Tales: Stories from Many Cultures; and in Cecil Gray, ed. 2000, Response
Poems edit
- 'The Village', Bim 7, p. 54
- 'On the Emmaus Road' (extract from He is Risen, Bim 33, pp. 27–29. Reprinted in Howard Sergeant, ed. 1968, New Voices of the Commonwealth
References edit
- ^ a b Edward Baugh (2015). "Epilogue: Coming of Age in the Fifties". In J. Dillon Brown; Leah Reade Rosenberg (eds.). Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 288–9. ISBN 978-1-62846-476-4.
- ^ 1st Karl Sealy Memorial Open (Barbados)