Amanda Smyth

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Biography

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and author of three novels. Black Rock (Serpents Tail) won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, a NAACP award nomination, was shortlisted for McKitterick Prize, and selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. Her second novel, A Kind of Eden, set in contemporary Trinidad (2013) was optioned as a TV series. Her third novel Fortune (Peepal Tree Press, 2021) is based on the tragic 1928 Dome fire in Trinidad and was shortlisted for the 2022 Walter Scott prize for historical fiction.

Awards

2010 Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, Prix du Premier Roman Prize

Years Attended

2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour

Amanda Smyth

Author

Ireland, Trinidad & Tobago, UK

Events Featuring Amanda Smyth

2022

A conversation with Celeste Mohammed and Amanda Smyth

Bocas UK Tour Event

Discussion Event

Event Date:

Leicester Central Library

2021

Amanda Smyth | Bios And Bookmarks Season 6

Bios And Bookmarks Event

Event Date:

Facebook Live

2014

Looking on the dark side

Bloody Friday, Festival Programme Event

Discussion Event

Event Date:

Old Fire Station

2014

Bernardine Evaristo and Amanda Smyth

Festival Programme Event

Readings Event

Event Date:

Old Fire Station

2014

Festival on Campus

Festival on Campus, Festival Programme Event

Readings Event

Event Date:

AV Room, Alma Jordan Library, UWI