Template:Did you know nominations/Ismith Khan

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:42, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Ismith Khan

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• ...that being based in the United States and not London like his contemporaries V. S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon may have contributed to his relative obscurity of Trinidad and Tobago novelist Ismith Khan? Source: "Roy­don Sal­ick's re­cent­ly pub­lished Ismith Khan: The Man & His Work, alerts read­ers, crit­ics and cul­tur­al the­o­rists alike to a sem­i­nal fig­ure of an ear­li­er gen­er­a­tion, who missed the boat which took Mit­tel­holz­er, Lam­ming, Naipaul and Selvon to fame and vary­ing de­grees of for­tune in Eng­land. Sal­ick spec­u­lates that the crit­i­cal ne­glect Khan has en­dured to date may be par­tial­ly at­trib­ut­able to his re­lo­ca­tion to Amer­i­ca rather than Lon­don, which func­tioned as the Eng­lish Caribbean's lit­er­ary cap­i­tal from the 1930s (with the ar­rival of Learie Con­stan­tine and CLR James) cer­tain­ly up to the end of the 20th cen­tu­ry." ([1])
  • ALT1:... that novelist Ismith Khan's obscurity (relative to his contemporaries V. S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon) may reflect the fact that he was not in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean? Source: Same as above

• Reviewed: Jennifer S.H. Brown

Created by Guettarda (talk). Self-nominated at 12:43, 12 April 2019 (UTC).

• Article is long enough and in date, and meets all policies. Hook is verified by source. I might suggest shortening it for brevity, something like alt2? Personally I like the unusual point that the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean was actually thousands of miles away and think its worth noting in the hook. Spokoyni (talk) 11:47, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

• • ALT2:... that novelist Ismith Khan's relative obscurity may reflect the fact that he was not in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean?
    • Thank you Spokoyni, and I agree that the shortened hook (ALT2) is a major improvement. I also agree that the "literary capital" bit is probably the most interesting fact here. Guettarda (talk) 13:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC)