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Olive Senior

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Biography

Olive Senior will be reading in the Short Fiction panel at 1:30pm on Sunday, April 11 at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre.

Olive Senior has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the F.G. Bressani Literary Prize. She was nominated for a Governor-General's Literary Award and was runner up for the Casa de Las Americas Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. In 2003, she received the Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award for Excellence (preservation of cultural heritage - Jamaica). Her body of published work includes four books of poetry, three collections of short stories and several award-winning non-fiction works on Caribbean culture.