Beka Lamb novel turns 30 | Cayo Scoop!  The Ecology of Cayo Culture | Scoop.it

Zee Edgell's Belizean novel, Beka Lamb, is 30 years old.

 

"Beka Lamb has been continuously in print since it first appeared in 1982. It has been required reading for CXC-takers around the Caribbean, and is on syllabi for university literature courses around the world.  The Belizean novel has also gained an international audience when it won Britain’s Fawcett Society Book Prize.  An entire generation of people in the Caribbean read Beka Lamb as part of their High School literature curricula.  The book has been translated into German, is taught at universities in the United States and the Caribbean, and is enjoyed by readers around the world."