Most important languages

The large number of languages spoken in the Little Antilles reflects its colonial past. All the islands have their own patois dialect, besides the international languages, as follows:

Spanish: Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.

French: Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Barthélémy and St. Martin

English: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, St. Maarten St. Kitts & Nevis, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Dutch: Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao.

Papiamento: is the local language of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. This Creole language is a mixture of Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, English and African and Caribbean languages.
To this list we can add Chinese, which is one of the other languages spoken at the polyglot Aruba. English is the most used language, especially at those islands receiving massive tourists.

Literature

Wide Sargasso’s sea, by Jean Rhys. Ed. Anagrama, S.A.
A classic. You will discover in this book some similarities with the Bronte’s style.

Omeros, By Derek Walcott. Ed. Anagrama S.A.
A remake of the classic by the St. Lucia’s poet and Literature Nobel Prize Derek Walcott.

A house for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul. Ed. Seix Barral S.A.
A bittersweet story of a Trinidad man searching security.