Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage

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Twin Guinep Publishers, 2003 - Reference - 549 pages
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About the author (2003)

Olive Senior was born in Jamaica in 1941. She lives both there and in Canada. Her first collection of short stories, "Summer Lightning" (1986), won the Commonwealth Literature Prize. She has published two subsequent collections of short stories, "The Arrival of the Snake Woman" (1989) and "The Discerner of Hearts" (1995). She has two collections of poems, "Talking of Trees" (1985) and "Gardening in the Tropics" (1995). She has writ

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TitleEncyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage
AuthorOlive Senior
Editionillustrated
PublisherTwin Guinep Publishers, 2003
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 26, 2008
ISBN9768007141, 9789768007148
Length549 pages
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