John La Rose, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John La Rose

Trinidad and Tobago writer and activist

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Date of Death: 28-Feb-2006

Profession: writer, poet, trade unionist

Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

John La Rose (27 December 1927 – 28 February 2006) was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, founder in 1966 of New Beacon Books, the first specialist Caribbean publishing company in Britain, and subsequently Chairman of the George Padmore Institute.
He was originally from Trinidad but was involved in the struggle for political independence and cultural and social change in the Caribbean in the 1940s and 1950s and later in Britain, the rest of Europe and the Third World.