Jennifer Rahim
Jennifer Rahim is a Trinidadian writer. Her 2009 poetry collection Approaching Sabbaths received a Casa de las Américas Prize in 2010,[1] for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole.[2]
She won the fiction category and the overall 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, awarded at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, for her 2017 book Curfew Chronicles.[3][4][5]
Selected works[]
- Between the Fence and the Forest, poetry (2002), ISBN 9781900715270
- Songster and Other Stories, short stories (2007), ISBN 9781845230487
- Approaching Sabbaths, poetry (2009), ISBN 9781845231156
- Ground Level, poetry (2014), ISBN 9781845232054
- Curfew Chronicles (2017), ISBN 9781845233624
Selected awards[]
- 1992: Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago Writer of the Year Award for Mothers Are Not The Only Linguists[6]
- 1993: New Voices Award of Merit for outstanding contributions to New Voices journal
- 1996: Gulf Insurance Writers Scholarship to attend the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, University of Miami; ;
- 2010: Casa de las Américas Prize for Approaching Sabbaths
- 2018: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Curfew Chronicles.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Jennifer Rahim". Peepal Press. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011.
- ^ "Dr Jennifer Rahim". The University of the West Indies.
- ^ Michael Mondezie, "Bocas winner: It's an incomparable feeling", Daily Express, Trinidad, 29 April 2018.
- ^ "T&T's Jennifer Rahim wins OCM Bocas Prize", NGC Bocas Lit Fest, 2 May 2018.
- ^ Apphia Barton, "Who reallywon the OCM Bocas Prize?", ApphiaBartonWrites, 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Jennifer Rahim" at Peepal Tree Press.
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