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Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

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Biography

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar is a Trinidadian-Canadian author and scholar. Her debut collection of short stories Suite as Sugar was published by Dundurn Press in 2023. Camille’s earlier work appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction; Mercury Retrograde; and “but where are you really from?” Stories of Identity and Assimilation in Canada. She has been shortlisted for the Otherwise Award and received numerous literary grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Shevchenko Foundation for her two upcoming novels. Camille is Professor Emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she headed the Caribbean Studies programme for almost twenty years. She left academia in 2022 to write full-time.

Years Attended

2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

Author
Canada, Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
2025
Take Two: Justin Haynes and Berkley Wendell Semple
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Take Two Event
Event Date: May 3, 2025 @ 11:00 am
Old Fire Station
2023
The Short of It
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: April 29, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
AV Room