Literature & Ideas
Distinguished
Olive Senior
born 1941
Poet, story writer and Poet Laureate of Jamaica
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Jamaica Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A writer from Trelawny whose short stories and poems explore Jamaican rural life, history and nature.
Her collection Summer Lightning won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987. She lives in Toronto and served as Poet Laureate of Jamaica.
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