Olive Senior
Olive Senior
Childhood Years : Olive Senior was born in Jamaica on December 23, 1941 and was brought up in Jamaica.
Education : She attended Montego Bay High School and Carleton University School of Journalism, Ottawa, as a Commonwealth scholar.
Adulthood : She started her career as a journalist with the Daily Gleaner and later entered the world of publishing. She was editor of two of the Caribbean's leading journals - Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies and Jamaica Journal, published by Institute of Jamaica Publications of which she was also Managing Director. She left Jamaica in 1989, spent some years in Europe and since 1993 has been based in Toronto.
Books Published :
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Children's
Summary Of Best Selling Book Written :
Nationality : Jamaican
Education : She attended Montego Bay High School and Carleton University School of Journalism, Ottawa, as a Commonwealth scholar.
Adulthood : She started her career as a journalist with the Daily Gleaner and later entered the world of publishing. She was editor of two of the Caribbean's leading journals - Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies and Jamaica Journal, published by Institute of Jamaica Publications of which she was also Managing Director. She left Jamaica in 1989, spent some years in Europe and since 1993 has been based in Toronto.
Books Published :
Fiction
- Dancing Lessons, Cormorant, 2011
- Arrival of the Snake-Woman, TSAR Publications, 2010 (first published Longman Caribbean Writers Series 1989).
- Summer Lightning, Longman, 1986
- Discerner of Hearts, McClelland and Stewart, 1995, 2002
Non-Fiction
- Encyclopaedia of Jamaican Heritage, Twin Guinep, 2003
- Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean, UK: James Currey/USA: Indiana University Press, 1991
- A-Z of Jamaican Heritage, Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann and the Gleaner Company Ltd., 1984
Poetry
- Shell, Insomniac Press, 2007
- Over the roofs of the world, Insomniac Press, 2005
- Gardening in the Tropics, Insomniac Press, 2005 (first published McClelland and Stewart, 1994, Bloodaxe Books, 1995)
- Talking of Trees, Calabash, 1986
Children's
- Birthday Suit, Annick Press, 2012
Summary Of Best Selling Book Written :
Nationality : Jamaican