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When it comes to Jamaica’s cultural legacy, music looms large, but the island also possesses a rich literary history that spans generations, and is now reaching an international audience.
When I think of some of Jamaica‘s historic literary figures people like Claude McKay, the poet who found success during the Harlem Renaissance; Louise Bennett-Coverley, the folklorist affectionately called Miss Lou who became known for her use of Jamaican patois in the 1960s and 70s; or Ian Fleming, the Englishman who wrote all 14 of his James Bond books from his home in Oracabessa I wonder if they could have ever imagined a time like this. I wonder if they could have imagined that readers from around the world would come to the island to celebrate Jamaican literature in all its forms.
Monique Roffey is an award-winning writer born in Trinidad in 1965 whose novels include
The White Woman on a Green Bicycle and
House of Ashes, which were shortlisted, respectively, for the Orange and the Costa prizes. She is also a senior lecturer at Manchester Writing School. Her sixth novel,
The Mermaid of Black Conch, won the Costa book of the year and is shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio prize, announced on 24 March.
1. Art
Bottle and bowl with poetry in Persian, 1180–1220, Iran.
This may well be the first thing I go and see on 21 June. They’ve got something like 350 objects that go back over 5,000 years. I’m completely magnetised by Iran and yet, it’s so mysterious and so closed off to us. I’m obsessed with looking at artefacts. I saw the Buddhist display not long ago at the V&A and I loved that. I like looking at old things. At the Museum of London, they have tons of things they found in the Thames, from hairy mammoth skulls to Viking helmets to
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Share Jamaica’s Rich Literary Legacy Is Finally Getting the Global Recognition It Deserves When it comes to Jamaica s cultural legacy, music looms large, but the island also possesses a rich literary history that spans generations, and is now reaching an international audience. By Isis Semaj-Hall March 14, 2021
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