Description
About the Author
Olive Senior is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-24. She is the award-winning author of twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's literature and other published work. Her many awards include Canada's Writers Trust Matt Cohen Award for Lifetime Achievement, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies and the Gold Medal of the Institute of Jamaica. Her work has been adapted for radio and stage, translated into many languages and is taught internationally. Olive Senior is from Jamaica and lives in Toronto, Canada, but returns frequently to the Caribbean which remains central to her work.
Reviews
'a significant literary voice within Caribbean literature and the Caribbean diaspora' - Clare Westall
Awards
Short-listed for The Raymond Souster Award by the League of Canadian Poets 2023.
Book Information
ISBN 9781800172166
Author Olive Senior
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd