Derek Walcott, OBE, is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992, the Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize, 2011 for his collection of poems White Egrets, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Derek Walcott, OBE, is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992, the Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize, 2011 for his collection of poems White Egrets, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Dr Kwynn Johnson is a Trinidadian artist and a Haitian Studies Scholar. At this year’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest, she is premiering a 30-ft drawing titled Place as Palimpsest. She has been working on this drawing for the past 3 years. It will also be featured in a series of forthcoming shows in Trinidad, Haiti
Gene is a musician (finger style acoustic guitarist), a composer and arranger who has performed throughout the Caribbean and abroad, and has several albums to his credit. His compositions and arrangements have been used by some of the biggest names in Caribbean Show Business, such as Derek Walcott, Dr. Adrian Augier, Ellen O’Malley Camps, Paul
Conrad Parris is an actor, voice talent and media personality with over 20 years experience. He started his career on stage with the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1995 with the New Actors Programme, helmed by Bernard Hazell. While there, he made his debut in Immortelle Theatre Company’s production of “Santa Claus, Mixed Nuts and Fruitcake”;
James Christopher Aboud is a poet and a lawyer. His book “Lagahoo Poems” (Peepal Tree Press) was awarded the inaugural James Rodway Poetry Prize, offered by Derek Walcott’s Rat Island Foundation in 2004. He has also published “The Stone Rose” (Paria Publishers) and been included in various regional and international literary journals and anthologies. He studied
Canisia Lubrin’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize, the Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Stars prize, and others. Also a finalist for the Trillium Award for Poetry and
Breanne Mc Ivor was born and raised in Trinidad. She studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before returning home. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, the Fish One-Page Prize and the Derek Walcott Writing Prize. In 2015, she won The Caribbean Writer’s David
Brenda Hughes, the director of our Festival drama readings, is Artistic Director of the Monkey Mountain theatre production company. She has produced and directed plays by Derek Walcott, Trevor Rhone, Ronald Amoroso, Roderick Walcott, and August Strindberg. Trained in acting at Shakespeare and Company, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts, she has co-created/created roles in some classic
Eric Maitrejean is Lecturer in French and Conference Interpreting at the University of the West Indies. He translated into French Pantomime by Derek Walcott and short stories by Olive Senior and Shani Moottoo among others. He established at the UWI the Caribbean Interpreting and Translation Bureau (CITB) which provides professional language services to T&T and beyond.
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