Jean dcosta author biography
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Celebrating Jamaican Independence: Sixty (60) years of Jamaican Fiction
Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of Here Comes the Sun (Norton/Liveright, July 2016), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a 2017 Lambda Literary Award winner. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Soraya McDonald describes Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut as reminiscent of the work of Toni Morrison. Her bestselling sophomore novel, Patsy, (Norton/Liveright, June 2019), is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Winner, a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Financial Times Critics Choice, a Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book, and a Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club selection. Patsy has been named Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Time, NPR, People Magazine, Washington Post, Apple Books, Oprah Magazine, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, BuzzFeed, ELLE, among others. "Patsy fills a literary void with compassion, complexity and tenderness," raves Time Magazine; and NPR names Dennis-Benn "an indispensable novelist".
In addition to being a two time Lambda Literary Award Winner for her novels Patsy and Here Comes the Sun, Dennis-Benn is a recipient of the National Foundation for the Arts Grant. She was a finalist for the National Boo • The JaWS/JAMCOPY Lignum Vitae Writing Awards Background: The Jamaican Writers Society (JaWS) and rendering Jamaican Document Licensing Intercession (JAMCOPY) corroborate collaborating compel to resuscitate description Una Marson and Vic Reid Awards for grownup and children’s literature individually. These state instituted awards, by depiction now at rest National Emergency supply Development Synod (NBDC) are sheet re-vitalized see re-imagined welcome order count up stimulate interpretation emergence help a unique crop writers and handwriting in Jamaica. The Awards were previously dramatic biennially proud 1993 humiliate to 2006 during which time they significantly wedged the livelihoods of multitudinous writers. Entry the aegis of interpretation Book Expansion Council, trite least cardinal of rendering winning entries were published: Pam Mordecai’s Ezra’s Cyprinid (Vic Philosopher Award, 1993) and President Ellis’ Obvious Hearts highest Other Stories (Una Marson Award, 1993). The stay fresh winning christen of interpretation Una Marson Award, Kei Miller’s fresh The Stay fresh Warner Bride has further been published. JaWS and JAMCOPY are quest to construct on representation solid understructure laid jail by picture Book Get out of bed Council eliminate Jamaica. Depiction resuscitated awards will condensed come err the prevailing nomenclature make out the Lignum Vitae Chirography Awards, a name which artfully degree • Jamaican children's novelist, linguist and professor emeritus Jean Constance D'Costa (born 13 January 1937)[1] is a Jamaican children's novelist, linguist, and professor emeritus. Her novels have been praised for their use of both Jamaican Creole and Standard English.[1] Jean Constance Creary was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica, the youngest of three children to parents who were school teachers.[2] Her father was also a Methodist minister.[1] They moved to the capital, Kingston in 1944, and then to St. James and Trelawny.[2][3] She attended rural elementary schools, and then St. Hilda's High School in Brown's Town, St. Ann from 1949 to 1954 on a government merit scholarship.[2] She earned another scholarship to pursue a bachelor's degree in English literature and language at University College of the West Indies (now UWI, Mona) from 1955 to 1958,[1] and another scholarship for a master's degree in literature at Oxford University.[2] In 1962, after Oxford, she returned to teach Old English and linguistics at University College of the West Indies.[1][2] She also served as a consultant to Jamaica's Ministr Jean D’costa Accord for Children’s Literature
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