Simpson, Hyacinth. “Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics”. Ryerson University, 2012.
Olive Senior
Standard Name: Senior, Olive
is one of the most widely read Caribbean writers. Some of her books are required reading in Caribbean primary schools and in several international high schools and universities. She has published across genres—non-fiction, short stories, a novel, several volumes of poetry, and children's fiction. Her works have appeared in many anthologies globally and have been translated into several languages including Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian. Her first collection of short stories, Summer Lightning, won the inaugural Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 1987.
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Texts
Senior, Olive. Anna Carries Water. Tradewind Books, 2013.
Senior, Olive. Arrival of the Snake Woman. Longman, 1989.
Senior, Olive. “Author Extended Bio”. Olive Senior Writer.
Senior, Olive. Birthday Suit. Annick Press, 2012.
Senior, Olive. Dancing Lessons. Cormorant Books, 2011.
Senior, Olive. Discerner of Hearts. McClelland and Stewart Inc., 1995.
Senior, Olive. Dying to Better Themselves. The University of the West Indies Press, 2014.
Senior, Olive. Gardening in the Tropics: Poems. McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1994.
Senior, Olive. Olive Senior Writer. http://www.olivesenior.com/index.html.
Senior, Olive. Over the Roofs of the World. Insomniac Press, 2005.
Senior, Olive. Shell. Insomniac Press, 2007.
Senior, Olive. Summer Lightning and Other Stories. Longman Group UK Ltd., 1986.
Senior, Olive. Talking of Trees. Calabash, 1985.
Senior, Olive. The Pain Tree. Cormorant Books Inc., 2015.