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The City College of New York Langston Hughes Festival presents the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal to Haitian fiction writer, memoirist, and essayist, E...

Edwidge Danticat talks about her new book, "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work", at the 2011 Langston Hughes Festival held at the Cit...

Calabash Festival - Staceyann Chin

Calabash Festival - Staceyann Chin

Calabash Festival 1

Various writers give their views on the Calabash Festival

In May 2005, Jamaica's Calabash Literary Festival celebrated its fifth year. The theme of the festival was The Fire Is Lit and searing performances...

"The idea of slavery is a powerful one. It's one that were suppose to have forgotten but five hundred years later, you just don't forget"

Caribbea...

Nalo Hopkinson talks about being Alienated

"We are human beings and we're going to disagree every five seconds and if that cannot be part of Utopia than we need to come up with something els...

Christian was born in The Bahamas and is of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage. A Rhodes Scholar, Cave Canem Fellow, and the recipient of a Lannan R...

Author Lorna Goodison, the 2008 recipient of the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, speaks at the presentation luncheon for the award. Vancouver, F...

Lorna Goodison reading from her book

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

on bernardsbookshelf.com

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TIPHANIE YANIQUE is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony. She has received numerous awards, including the Boston Review Fiction Prize, a...

Pamela Mordecai distinguishes herself as an author of children's literature and speaks of the importance for the development of Caribbean children'...

Earl Lovlace at the BOCAS FEST LIT press launch at NALIS in POS, T&T.

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Caribbean Women Authors at the Bocas Lit Fest 2011 in Trinidad and Tobago talk about writing as a tool for proce...

The prize-winning, young novelist from Haiti and Brooklyn spoke frankly in this interview given in Miami, Florida, in June 2003. Danticat is the fi...

A montage of the launch of Diana McCaulay's first novel "Dog-Heart" on March 26th 2010 at Bookophilia in Kingston, Jamaica.

Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican writer, newspaper columnist and environmental activist. Her short stories have been published in the Caribbean, and he...

Acclaimed Jamaican poet Olive Senior, in conversation with Lecturer and writer Honor Ford Smith, discusses the state of Caribbean Literature and th...

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 I had the opportunity to read at UWI Caribbean Literature Week. Hope you enjoy it. Check it out on Amazon.com

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/ne... The Caribbean is made up of Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking island states. Liter...

Part 1: Tiphanie Yanique reads

Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010)

Selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, Fiction Finalist for Lark and Termite, 2009

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Tiphanie Yanique, author of " How To Escape From a Leper Colony" and winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature -Fiction, talks about u...

Trinidad resident Derek Walcott won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Walcott has published twenty volumes of poetry and is also a published play...

The 1992 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Derek Walcott reads his poem 'Sea Grapes' from "Collected Poems 1948-1984". To learn more about Derek ...