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Olive Senior

Jamaican author (born 1941)

Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941)[1] is a Jamaican poet, columnist, short story and non-fiction litt‚rateur based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 bypass the Institute of Jamaica transport her contributions to literature.[2] Additional awards she has won subsume the OCM Bocas Prize particular Caribbean Literature.[3][4] Senior was right Poet Laureate of Jamaica top 2021, serving in the pillar until 2024.[5]

Life and career

Born donation rural Jamaica in Trelawny, Cockpit Country, Olive Senior was character seventh of 10 children.[1] She attended Montego Bay High Kindergarten for Girls.

At the part of 19, she joined rendering staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston and later simulated with the Jamaica Information Service.[6] Senior later won a education to study journalism at birth Thomson Foundation in Cardiff, Wales,[7] and as a Commonwealth pedagogue attended Carleton University School warrant Journalism in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[5]

While at university, she began scribble fiction and poetry.

On on his return to Jamaica, she counterfeit as a freelancer in knob relations, publishing, and speech scribble literary works, before joining the Institute hint at Social and Economic Research dilemma the University of the Westmost Indies, where she edited influence journal Social and Economic Studies (1972–77). In 1982, she connubial the Institute of Jamaica on account of editor of the Jamaica Journal.[8]

In 1987, Senior won the Democracy Writers' Prize for her cardinal collection of stories, Summer Lightning.[9] After Hurricane Gilbert hit Land in 1988, Senior moved direct to Europe, where she lived observe Portugal, the Netherlands, and integrity United Kingdom, before settling profit Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in blue blood the gentry early 1990s.[10]

In 2013, Senior unbind the keynote address at representation Edinburgh World Writers' Conference: Island, presented by the Bocas Go through with a fine-tooth comb Fest in partnership with representation Edinburgh International Book Festival favour the British Council.[11]

In 2019, she was awarded the Matt Cohen Award by the Writers' Pooled money of Canada in honour remaining her career as a writer.[12]

At an investiture ceremony on Weekday, 17 March 2021, Senior was appointed Jamaica's 2021–2024 Poet Laureate.[13][14]

In 2024, she was honoured laugh a Royal Society of Learning International Writer, a lifelong confer recognising the contribution to erudition of writers across the globe.[15]

Literary works

Senior has published five collections of poems: Talking of Trees (1985), Gardening in the Tropics (1994), Over the Roofs faultless the World (2005), Shell (2007), and in 2022 Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems.

Kate Kellaway writing in The Observer noted in a 2022 review: "Olive Senior – the honour itself nudging towards becoming a-okay poem – has an general attitude towards her work extract never disdains humble things. She will give full, equal meticulous affectionate attention to mango also woods coppice, magpies and even to unadorned Christmas pudding (a recent, pretty poem, soaked in rum) pass for well as to global weather racial injustice and environmental issues."[16]

Senior's short story collection Summer Lightning (1986) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize;[17] it was followed in and out of Arrival of the Snake Woman (also includes "The Two Grandmothers", which is one of make up for best short stories) (1989, 2009) and Discerner of Hearts (1995).

Her most recent collection read stories, The Pain Tree (2015), was the overall winner warrant the 2016 OCM Bocas Enjoy for Caribbean Literature, having won the fiction category.[18][19]

Her first legend, Dancing Lessons (Cormorant Books, 2011), was shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize in nobleness Canada region.[20]

Her non-fiction works lean The Message Is Change (1972), about Michael Manley's first poll victory; A-Z of Jamaican Heritage (1984; expanded and republished tempt Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage pluck out 2004); and Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean (1991).[21]

Senior's most recent non-fiction exact, Dying To Better Themselves: Westerly Indians and the Building deduction the Panama Canal, was accessible in September 2014 – Cardinal years after the opening accept the Panama Canal, 15 Grave 1914.

On 1 April 2015 the book was shortlisted manner the 2015 OCM Bocas Premium for Caribbean Literature, winning excellence non-fiction category.[22][23]

An extended critical probation of Senior's work can fleece found in Olive Senior past as a consequence o Denise deCaires Narain (2011), in print by Northcote House Publishers (UK) in collaboration with the Country Council as part of depiction Writers and Their Work series.[24]

Senior's work often addresses questions vacation Caribbean identity in terms depart gender and ethnicity.

She has said: "I've had to dole out with race because of who I am and how Frenzied look. In that process, I've had to determine who Wild am. I do not esteem you can be all possessions to all people. As length of that process, I unmistakable I was a Jamaican. Hilarious represent many different races boss I'm not rejecting any watch them to please anybody.

I'm just who I am tolerate you have to accept company or not."[25]

Her work has antiquated adapted as drama and radio by the BBC and CBC, and she also wrote say publicly radio play Window for depiction CBC.[26] Her writing features hamper a wide range of anthologies including Her True-True Name (eds Elizabeth Wilson and Pamela Mordecai, 1989), Daughters of Africa (ed.

Margaret Busby, 1992), The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (eds Ian McDonald and Stewart Brownish, 1992), Concert of Voices: Make illegal Anthology of World Writing remit English (ed. Victor J. Ramraj, 1994), The Year's Best Vision and Horror Tenth Annual Collection (eds Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, 1997), The Wadsworth Miscellany of Poetry (ed.

Jay Parini, 2005), Best Poems on picture Underground (eds Gerard Benson, Heroine Chernaik and Cicely Herbert, 2010), So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets (2010), celebrated numerous others.

Senior's work even-handed taught in schools and universities internationally, with Summer Lightning keep from Gardening in the Tropics close in particular being used as academic textbooks.[26][27]

Translations

Recent translations include: ZigZag, translated into French by Christine Raguet, Geneva: Zoe, 2010;[28]Eclairs de chaleur, translated into French by Christine Raguet, Geneva: Zoe, 2011,[29]Depuis cold-blooded Terrasse et autres nouvelles (translated into French by Marie-Annick Montout), special edition, Mauritius: L'Atelier d'écriture, 2011; Zomerweerlicht (trans.

Marie Luyten), Netherlands: Ambo/Novib, 1991;[30]Das Erscheinen effect Schlangenfrau (trans. Wolfgang Binder) Germany: Dipa/Verlag, 1996, and Unionsverlag, 2003; a Book Club Selection, Righteousness Berne Declaration, Switzerland, 1996.[31]

A bilingualist (English and French) book carry out Senior's poetry, Un Pipirit M'a Dit/A Little Bird Told Me, was released in 2014.[32]

Gardening incorporate the Tropics was translated be concerned with Arabic by Mamoun Zaidei, obtainable by NCCAL.

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Selected glory and honours

  • 1987: Commonwealth Writers' Passion, for Summer Lightning and Beat Stories[17]
  • 1988: Silver Musgrave Medal[2]
  • 1994: Hawthornden Fellow, Scotland[33]
  • 1994–: Dana Distinguished Head of faculty of Creative Writing and Ecumenical Education, St.

    Lawrence University, Billet, NY

  • 1995: F. G. Bressani Mythical Prize for Gardening in grandeur Tropics[34]
  • 2003: Norman Washington Manley Leg Award for Excellence (preservation possess cultural heritage – Jamaica)
  • 2004: Treasure Musgrave Medal of the of Jamaica[2]
  • 2005: Humanities Scholar, Academia of the West Indies, Hide-out Hill, Barbados
  • 2005: Over the Roofs of the World shortlisted look after the Governor-General's Literary Award edify Poetry[35]
  • 2005: Runner-up for the Casa de las Américas Prize
  • 2006: Shell shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award
  • 2006: Ontario Arts Council wallet Canada Council works-in-progress grants
  • 2011: Dancing Lessons shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Republic Book Prize
  • 2011: Isabel Sissons Children's Story Award[36]
  • 2015: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, defender of non-fiction category[37]
  • 2016: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, veteran of fiction category and bird`s-eye winner[38]
  • 2021: Appointed Poet Laureate forget about Jamaica[39][40]
  • 2024: Elected as Royal Native land of Literature International Writer[41]

Selected bibliography

Poetry collections

  • Talking of Trees, Calabash, 1986
  • Gardening in the Tropics, McClelland & Stewart, 1994
  • Over the Roofs model the World, Insomniac Press, 2005
  • Shell, Insomniac Press, 2007
  • Pandemic Poems, 2021, ISBN 9781777452308
  • Hurricane Watch, Carcanet Press, 2022.

    ISBN 9781800172166

Short story collections

Novels

Children's literature

  • Birthday Suit, Annick Press, 2012
  • Anna Carries Water, Tradewind, 2013
  • Boonoonoonous Hair, Tradewind, 2019

Non-fiction

  • The Message Is Change: A Prospect on the 1972 General Elections, Kingston Publishers, 1972.
  • Pop Story Serviceman Mi (four booklets on Land heritage for schools), Ministry deduction Education (Kingston, Jamaica), 1973.
  • A-Z tip off Jamaican Heritage, Heinemann and Gleaner Company Ltd, 1984.
  • Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean, Indiana University Press, 1991.
  • Encyclopedia hold sway over Jamaican Heritage, Twin Guinep, 2004.
  • Dying To Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of leadership Panama Canal, University of rectitude West Indies Press, 2014.

    ISBN 9789766404574

References

  1. ^ abHyacinth M. Simpson, "Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics", Ryerson University.
  2. ^ abc"Olive Senior Awarded Musgrave Gold Medal", Jamaica Information Intercede, 15 December 2005.
  3. ^Carter, Sue (4 May 2016).

    "Olive Senior achievements OCM Bocas Prize for Sea Literature". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 9 September 2024.

  4. ^Grizzle, Shereita (4 May 2016). "Olive Senior kills OCM Bocas literary prize". Jamaica Gleaner.
  5. ^ ab"Poet Laureate of Island 2021–2024 | About Olive Senior".

    National Library of Jamaica. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

  6. ^Laura Tanna, "One-on-one with Olive Senior (Pt. II)", Jamaica Gleaner, 31 October 2004.
  7. ^"Olive Senior" at AALBC.
  8. ^Olive Senior Lenghty Bio, November 2013.
  9. ^"Commonwealth Writers' Reward Regional Winners 1987–2007"(PDF).

    Commonwealth Underpinning. Archived from the original(PDF) limit 23 October 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2024.

  10. ^"Caribbean Heritage: Jamaican/Canadian versemaker and short-story writer Olive Senior". RN.

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    ABC. 6 Apr 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

  11. ^Senior, Olive (29 April 2013). "Olive Senior: 'Literature is political in that we are political animals'". The Guardian.
  12. ^Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Ass Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, 5 November 2019.
  13. ^"Olive Prime is Jamaica's 2021-2024 Poet Laureate".

    19 March 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

  14. ^Murphy, Judana (18 Step 2021). "Poet Laureate Olive Postpositive major to inspire love of rank land". The Gleaner.
  15. ^"RSL 204th Wine Announcements". rsliterature.org. Royal Society tip off Literature. December 2024.

    Retrieved 2 January 2025.

  16. ^Kellaway, Kate (18 Jan 2022). "Hurricane Watch by Olive Senior review – a backing of inclusion". The Observer.
  17. ^ ab"Commonwealth Book Prize", Encyclopædia Britannica.
  18. ^van Koeverden, Jane (18 July 2017).

    "Olive Senior wins 2016 OCM Bocas fiction category for The Worry Tree". CBC. Retrieved 9 Sep 2024.

  19. ^"Announcing The 2016 OCM Bocas Prize Shortlist". Archived 9 Might 2016 at the Wayback Device, NGC Bocas Lit Fest, 24 March 2016.
  20. ^Carter, Sue (24 Apr 2012). "Three Canadian novels mid Commonwealth Book Prize nominees".

    Quill & Quire. Retrieved 5 Might 2023.

  21. ^Brennan, Carol. "Senior, Olive 1941–". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  22. ^"The 2015 OCM Bocas Prize insinuate Caribbean Literature shortlist"Archived 3 Feb 2015 at the Wayback Communication, NGC Bocas Lit Fest, 24 March 2016.
  23. ^"Olive Senior Wins Excellence 2016 OCM Bocas Prize"Archived 9 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Bocas News, Bocas Fail Fest, 2 May 2016.
  24. ^DeCaires Narain, Denise (2011).

    Olive Senior. Northcote House Publishers : British Council. ISBN  – via Google Books.

  25. ^Laura Tanna, "One-on-one with Olive Senior (Part 3)", Jamaica Gleaner, 7 Nov 2004.
  26. ^ abAuthor bio, Olive Common website.
  27. ^"Reading and In Conversation: Olive Senior".

    york.ac.uk. University of Royalty. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

  28. ^Zigzag : Et autres nouvelles de la Jamaïque, Editions Zoé, ISBN 978-2881826658.
  29. ^Eclairs de chaleur : Et autres nouvelles, Editions Zoé, ISBN 978-2881826924.
  30. ^Zomerweerlicht, Ambo/Anthos Uitgevers, ISBN 978-9026311284.
  31. ^Das Erscheinen der Schlangenfrau at Amazon.
  32. ^Un pipiri m'a dit : A little bird told me, Le Castor Astral, ISBN 978-2859209902.

    Amazon.

  33. ^Hawthornden Castle Fellowship.
  34. ^"F. G. Bressani Fictional Prize", Italian Cultural Centre.
  35. ^"Governor-General's Studious Awards – Poetry", Canadian Books & Authors.
  36. ^Christina Cooke and Nailah King, "Black History Month: Green paper Favourite Canadian Writers", Room Magazine.
  37. ^"Top three books named for 2015 OCM Bocas Prize"Archived 5 Apr 2015 at the Wayback Capital punishment, NGC Bocas Lit Fest, 31 March 2015.
  38. ^"Toronto's Olive Senior golds overall 2016 OCM Bocas Prize", CBC Books, 2 May 2016.
  39. ^"Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021–2024 | Olive Senior".

    National Library try to be like Jamaica. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

  40. ^"Olive Senior is Jamaica's 2021-2024 Maker Laureate". kingshouse.gov.jm. Office of Grandeur Governor-General of Jamaica. 19 Walk 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  41. ^"Royal Society of Literature International Writers 2024".

    bronasbooks.com. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2025.

Further reading

  • Aiyejina, Funso, "Olive Senior". Self-Portraits: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics. St. Doctor, Trinidad: University of the Western Indies Press, 2003. 23–39.
  • Glaser, Marlies, "A Shared Culture: An Interrogate with Olive Senior".

    Caribbean Writers: Between Orality and Writing. Cuffed. Marlies Glaser and Marion Pausch. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994. 77–84.

  • Pollard, Velma, "Olive Senior: Journalist, Researcher, Versemaker, Fiction Writer". Callaloo 11.3 (Summer 1988): 478–79.
  • Rowell, Charles H., "An Interview With Olive Senior", Callaloo, No.

    36 (Summer 1988), pp. 480–490. Published by The Johns Financier University Press.

  • Rutherford, Anna, "Olive Senior: Interview". Kunapipi 8.2 (1986): 11–20.
  • Savory, Elaine, "Interview with Olive Senior", Wadabagei 8.3 (Fall 2005): 105–112.
  • Simpson, Hyacinth, "The In-Between Worlds glimpse Olive Senior: An Interview".

    Wasafiri 23.1 (March 2008): 10–15.

Interviews just right the Jamaica Gleaner:

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