The Austin Clarke Library

Gathered together are three extraordinary books by renowned storyteller and memoirist Austin Clarke. ’Membering , Clarke’s breathtaking memoir, spans over fifty years of his life as a writer, chronicling his coming to Canada in the fifties, formative experiences with Malcolm X, Chinua Achebe, and LeRoi Jones, and bursting with cultural insights and poignant memories from a narrative master. In The Polished Hoe , winner of the Giller Prize and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, when an elderly