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How to Say Babylon by Jamaican author Safiya Sinclair is the winner of the overall 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.The prize comes with a cash award of US$10,000,
Goodbye Bay, the final and posthumously published novel by Trinidad & Tobago author Jennifer Rahim, will be officially launched by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities and Education and the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies of The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, on Saturday, January…
Goodbye Bay (Peepal Tree Press, July 2023) was the last novel published by the late Trinidadian writer Jennifer Rahim (1963-2023). [See bio below. Also see our previous post Jennifer Rahim wins OCM Bocas Prize.] Description: It is 1963, one year after Independence, and Trinidadians are beginning to wonder what they can expect. But for Anna…
Ira Mathur (Trinidad and Tobago Guardian) speaks to Ingrid Persaud about her literary “voice” and her work in the BBC-commissioned More Chronicles of Burke Street. After decades of being brainwashed to believe only ‘the Queen’s English’ was acceptable, Trinidad and Tobago’s writers (along with writers in our region) are finding their own voice and being…
Friends, colleagues, and former students of poet, author and university lecturer Jennifer Rahim continue to mourn her sudden death on March 13. They said her work and influence will continue to resonate with them. The UWI St Augustine Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies joined the entire university community and the region in mourning