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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 ...
Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) [1] is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of ...
Author. Honours. Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2018) Kevin Jared Hosein (born 1986) is a Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago. [1][2] He is known for winning the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with his story "Passage". [1] He also won the regional (Caribbean) section of the prize in 2015, with "The King of ...
Georgetown University. Occupation. Poet, performing artist, novelist, prose writer, artist, university teacher. Employer. University of North London. Awards. Guggenheim Fellowship (2003) Merle Collins (born 29 September 1950 in Aruba) [1] is a Grenadian poet and short story writer.
Tobias Buckell. Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979, Grenada West Indies) is an American science fiction writer. Born in the Caribbean, he grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and almost one hundred stories have been translated into nineteen different languages.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...