TT has a long history of journalists and columnists becoming fiction and non-fiction writers, honing their personal styles while incorporating the lives of those they interact with into their work.

Journalist Richard Charan now joins the ranks of the likes of Seepersad Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, George Lamming, Michael Anthony, Andre Bagoo, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Bridget Brereton, Debbie Jacob, Ira Mathur, Roslyn Carrington and Judy Raymond.

His book, A Village of One: Essays on Trinbago’s Past, Places, People was launched at the Central Bank Museum on August 26. He said it was a passion for writing that propelled him into journalism in 1994.