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Dionne Brand

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Biography

Dionne Brand is the acclaimed author of twenty-four books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction — most recently Salvage: Readings from the Wreck. Her books have won the Trillium Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Toronto Book Award, the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, among other awards.

Awards

2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction Winner, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Years Attended

2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 Featured Speaker, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Featured Speaker

Dionne Brand

Author
Canada, Trinidad & Tobago