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Kevin Jared Hosein

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Biography

Kevin Jared Hosein is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, fiction winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It had also been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018.  His previous novels include The Repenters, which was shortlisted for the Fiction OCM Bocas Prize, and The Beast of Kukuyo, which received a Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature. Both were also longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. He has been published in numerous anthologies and outlets, including Esquire, Wasafiri, Lightspeed, Granta, BBC Radio 4 and Perspective. He lives in Trinidad and Tobago.

Awards

2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Caribbean Winner, 2017 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature Finalist, 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Overall Winner, CODE Burt Awards, Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Years Attended

2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015 Children’s Festival Storyteller, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 South Festival Participant, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Kevin Jared Hosein

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Kevin Jared Hosein
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
2023
A Novel is A World with Kevin Jared Hosein
Workshops Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: July 29, 2023 @ 10:00 am
Online - Zoom
2023
In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo
Festival Programme Event
Book Launch Event
Event Date: April 30, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2023
Take Two: Kevin Jared Hosein and Celeste Mohammed
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 4:30 pm
Old Fire Station