Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monique Roffey is one of the Caribbean’s most versatile authors, whose novels, including “Archipelago” and “The White Woman on the ...

If there were a prize for the course with the most intriguing name, Conrad James's class would be a strong contender. The new associate professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature in the ...

Often, when people think of Caribbean cultures, they envision music, food, and fashion. In addition to these aspects of the Caribbean, the founders of The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caribbean American Heritage Month, celebrated throughout June, marks a time of celebration and appreciation for the many ...

Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo held a conference last week with a wide range of officials and practitioners in the country’s tourism sector, tourism industry and in some areas of culture at the ...

In 2023, two of the Pen/Faulkner Award finalists for fiction, Dionne Irving's The Islands and Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You, were crafted by authors of Jamaican descent. Another, Fire Rush by ...

The NGC Bocas Lit Fest held last week in Port of Spain is a timely reminder that however bleak political and cultural life in the West Indies may seem from time to time, at least Caribbean literature ...

IF you’re an avid reader, then you would have noticed that the hashtag #ReadCaribbean has been trending for the entire month of June, which is dedicated to Caribbean literature, Caribbean authors and ...

Today, July 12th, 2024, marks the fifth Caribbean Literature Day, an annual celebration launched by House of Nehesi Publishers in 2020 to honour Caribbean literary heritage. This date coincides with ...

Maryse Condé, a French-language author from Guadeloupe who became known as the grande dame of Caribbean literature while writing exuberant, lushly descriptive novels that explored the brutal legacies ...

Occasional references to Caribbean characters appear in Irish literature, but rarely does the region itself materialise as a setting. Benedict Kiely was born in Dromore, Co Tyrone, and grew up in ...

In its diverse subjects and themes, in the broad dispersal of both writers and readers, Caribbean literature has a global sweep. Two generations ago, Jamaican poet Louise Bennett-Coverley wrote about ...