While in Trinidad launching her fourth novel, Dr. Lakshmi Seeterram-Persaud, will read at the Children’s Library, National Library on Saturday 04 December, 2004 at 9:00 a.m.

Seeterram-Persaud, recently was honoured by the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick through the establishment of the Lakshmi Persaud Research Fellowship in Indo-Carribean Literature as part of its twentieth anniversary commemoration activities. The Lakshmi Persaud Research Fellowship is created in recognition of the contributions made to Caribbean culture by people of Indian ancestry.

Some of Seeterram-Persaud’s books include: Raise the Lanterns High (2004); For the Love of my Name (2000); Sastra (1993), and Butterfly in the Wind (1990).