Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson lives in New England, raises goats, and travels to five continents frequently. A special interest is Africa. Another is flying a glider above the mountains of New Hampshire.

Peter is a novelist, poet and translator. His textbooks (literature anthologies) on African heritage literature and francophone literature have been in print for 28 years.

He looks forward to writing a novel based on his 20 years working in mental hospitals.

The first novel, Winter Light, is an uptight allegory of despair and redemption--the long winter of a young teacher in a second rate boarding school. Misadventures, love and evil characters.

The sequel is Harrison's Word. An experimental story of the same character (Harrison Rhodes's) attempts to fight off his literary agent--who wants Harrison's novels to be filthier.

Poetry titles: Late Liveries, The Angle of Incidence.

Anthologies: Négritude et nouveaux mondes; Littérature moderne du monde francophone.

Translation titles: Red Earth; A Passenger From The West; The Affair; Exile and Helplessness; Exile: Women's Turn; Father/Son; ...and spring is veiled over (this last is translated from Mohamed Loakira's poetry, and is about Arab Spring)

Song lyrics: Daybreak; New Words