Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Website. www .olivesenior .com. 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] Senior was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica ...
Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may be referred to as Anglo-Caribbean or, in historical contexts, as West Indian literature. Most of these territories have become independent nations since the 1960s, though some retain colonial ...
Lasana M. Sekou (born 12 January 1959) is a poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and publisher from the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Biography [ edit ] Lasana M. Sekou has authored over 20 books and is considered one of the prolific Caribbean poets of his generation.
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 ...
London School of Economics. 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 distinguished Grenadian poet and short story writer.
Barbara Jenkins was born in San Fernando, Trinidad. She studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at University College, Cardiff. She married a fellow student, and during the 1960s lived in Wales, returning to Trinidad in the early 1970s. [1] She has described her successful writing career as "accidental": after she retired ...
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 ...
Earl Wilbert Lovelace (born 13 July 1935) is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer.He is particularly recognized for his descriptive, dramatic fiction on Trinidadian culture: "Using Trinidadian dialect patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures."