lawrence scott frsl (born in trinidad, 1943) is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer from trinidad & tobago, who divides his time between london and port of spain. his novels have been awarded (1998) and short-listed (1992, 2004) for the commonwealth writers' prize and thrice nominated for the international dublin literary award (for "aelred's sin" in 2000, "night calypso" in 2006 and "light falling on bamboo" in 2014). his stories have been much anthologised and he won the tom-gallon short-story award in 1986.