About the Author
Olive Senior
Olive Senior was born in Jamaica in 1941. She lives both there and in Canada. Her first collection of short stories, Summer Lightning (1986), won the Commonwealth Literature Prize. She has published two subsequent collections of short stories, The Arrival of the Snake Woman (1989) and The Discerner of Hearts (1995). She has two collections of poems, Talking of Trees (1985) and Gardening in the Tropics (1995). She has written on different aspects of Caribbean culture and was editor of Jamaica Journal.
Lots to keep you busy this week in literary events: the fall launches of Wolsak & Wynn and Talonbooks, as well as Vancouver Writers' Fest!
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We thought Rhonda Douglas' Welcome to the Circus (launching this week in Toronto and Calgary) was an appropriate feature title for this week's This Week in Book Events, if only because it evokes:
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