John Thieme is a Senior Fellow at the University of East
Anglia. He previously held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South
Bank University lectured at Universities of Guyana and North London. His books
include Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Postcolonial
Literary Geographies: Out of Place, studies of Derek Walcott, V.S.
Naipaul and R.K. Narayan, and The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial
Literatures in English. He has also published extensively on Amitav Ghosh
and Robert Koetsch. He was Editor of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
from 1992 to 2011 and is General Editor of the Manchester University Press
Contemporary World Writers Series.
His creative writing includes Paco’s Atlas and Other Poems and
the novel The Book of Francis Barber, both published in 2018.