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Diana McCaulay

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Biography

Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican environmental activist and writer, a lifelong resident of the capital city of Kingston. Her forthcoming novel, A House for Miss Pauline, was published by Dialogue Books in the UK and Algonquin Books in the USA in February 2025.

She has already written five novels:
DOG-HEART (Peepal Tree Press )
HURACAN (Peepal Tree Press)
GONE TO DRIFT (Papillote Press and HarperCollins)
WHITE LIVER GAL (self-published)
DAYLIGHT COME (Peepal Tree Press)

Diana has also self published a collection of her newspaper columns called WRITING JAMAICA. She has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region twice, in 2012 and 2022, and most recently, won the Elizabeth Nunez Short Story Prize for writers resident in the Caribbean at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival in New York in September 2024. She was awarded the Norman
Washington Manley Award in 2021 for Excellence for Protection and Preservation of the Environment and in 2022, a Gold Musgrave Medal for distinguished eminence in the field of literature by the Council of the Institute of Jamaica. 

Awards

2014 Hollick Arvon Prize Winner, 2015 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature Finalist, 2019 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature Finalist, CODE Burt Awards, Hollick Arvon Prize

Years Attended

2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015 Children’s Festival Storyteller, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Diana McCaulay

Author, Children's Author
Jamaica
Events Featuring Diana McCaulay
2025
BOOK LAUNCH: The Cropper Foundation presents Writing For Our Lives
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Life Stories, Poetry Event
Event Date: May 3, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2025
One-on-One: Diana McCaulay
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, ⁠One on One Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 10:00 am
Old Fire Station