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Olive Senior
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As a poet, fiction writer, journalist and editor, Olive Senior is one of Canada's most internationally recognized and acclaimed authors. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her fiction collection Summer Lightning and a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for her poetry collection Over the Roofs of the World, 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. She divides her time between her native Jamaica and her home in Toronto.
Praise for Olive Senior
"Senior has once again demonstrated the skills of a master weaver, ensuring her place in the pantheon of Caribbean literary greats."
— Journal of West Indian Literature
"Her argument is made with formal beauty and emotional effect and strikes hard at both the head and the heart."
— The Globe and Mail
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