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Dying To Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
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Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Tenth Annual Collection
1035:"Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021–2024 | About Olive Senior"
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345:Senior has published five collections of poems:
225:. At the age of 19, she joined the staff of the
1868:"Olive Senior: 'Should Literature Be Political?
1792:Savory, Elaine, "Interview with Olive Senior",
1303:"Announcing The 2016 OCM Bocas Prize Shortlist"
395:(1995). Her most recent collection of stories,
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1748:Caribbean Writers: Between Orality and Writing
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1106:. Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from
953:"Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics"
538:So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets
243:, and as a Commonwealth scholar attended
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708:2021: Appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica
700:OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
596:Un Pipirit M'a Dit/A Little Bird Told Me
401:OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
363:Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems
199:OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
132:OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
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1824:"One-on-one with Olive Senior (Pt. II)"
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785:Summer Lightning and Other Stories
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917:Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage
522:The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry
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585:Das Erscheinen der Schlangenfrau
379:Senior's short story collection
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1611:"F. G. Bressani Literary Prize"
1158:Senior, Olive (29 April 2013).
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1600:Hawthornden Castle Fellowship.
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530:Best Poems on the Underground
322:In 2019, she was awarded the
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891:, Kingston Publishers, 1972.
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740:Over the Roofs of the World
667:Over the Roofs of the World
619:Commonwealth Writers' Prize
612:Selected awards and honours
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355:Over the Roofs of the World
278:Commonwealth Writers' Prize
261:Social and Economic Studies
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113:Over The Roofs of the World
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798:Arrival of the Snake-Woman
674:Casa de las Américas Prize
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389:Arrival of the Snake Woman
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1088:Olive Senior Extended Bio
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911:Indiana University Press
901:A-Z of Jamaican Heritage
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672:2005: Runner-up for the
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328:Writers' Trust of Canada
311:in partnership with the
276:In 1987, Senior won the
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748:, Insomniac Press, 2007
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858:Children's literature
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591:, Switzerland, 1996.
589:The Berne Declaration
419:The Message Is Change
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163:Olive Marjorie Senior
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1657:5 April 2015 at the
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919:, Twin Guinep, 2004.
866:, Annick Press, 2012
361:(2007), and in 2022
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195:Institute of Jamaica
84:School of Journalism
2290:Kevin Adonis Browne
1139:. ABC. 6 April 2013
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393:Discerner of Hearts
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191:Musgrave Gold Medal
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1995:Louis de Bernières
1879:The Poetry Archive
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878:, Tradewind, 2019
872:, Tradewind, 2013
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