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The more wide-ranging term "Caribbean literature" generally refers to the literature of all Caribbean territories regardless of language—whether written in English, Spanish, French, Hindustani, or Dutch, or one of numerous creoles. [1] The literature of Caribbean is exceptional, both in language and subject. Through themes of innocence, exile ...
Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) [1] is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. [2] Other awards she has won include the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature ...
Her short stories have been published in journals including Wasafiri, The Caribbean Writer and Small Axe, as well as in the collections Moving Right Along: Caribbean Stories in Honour of John Cropper, eds Funso Aiyejina and Judy Stone (Caroni, Trinidad: Lexicon, 2010), Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean (New York and Leeds: Peekash ...
Website. www.lawrencescott.co.uk. Lawrence Scott FRSL (born in Trinidad, 1943) is a novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago, who divides his time between London and Port of Spain. [1] He has also worked as a teacher of English and Drama at schools in London and in Trinidad. Scott's novels have been awarded (1998) and ...
In 2013, she was awarded the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "The Whale House". In the same year, she was nominated for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writer's Prize for fiction. In 2015, her article "Mermen Come Calling", which was published in the New York Times, won a CTO Travel Media Award.
Her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean). Her second book, When the Rain Stopped in Natland, is a novella for young readers, and has been included on the literacy program in several schools.
978-0-374-52734-1. At the Bottom of the River[1] is a collection of short stories by Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid. Published in 1983, it was her first short story collection. The collection consists of ten inter-connected short stories, seven of which were previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review between 1978 and 1982. [2]
Monica Skeete (née Martineau; 1923–1997) was a Grenadian poet, writer and teacher. [1] Her work was first published in the Barbadian literary magazine BIM in 1946. [2] [1] [3] Her 1978 collection of short stories, Time Out, was published by Nelson Caribbean in their Authors of the Caribbean series, to support a growing educational market for Caribbean literature.