Ralph de Boissière
(1907-2008)
Australian novelist of Trinidadian origin
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Ralph Anthony Charles de Boissière (6 October 1907 – 16 February 2008) was a Trinidad-born Australian social realist novelist. Described as "an outspoken opponent of racism, injustice, greed and corruption, a passionate humanist with a vision of a just society", he was the author of four novels although most acclaimed for the first two: Crown Jewel and Rum and Coca-Cola, both originally published in the 1950s. A fifth novel called Homeless in Paradise remains unpublished.
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16 October 1907 Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
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16 February 2008 (aged 100) Melbourne, Australia
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