Olive Senior

Biography

Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005, she was awarded the Musgrave Medal in gold by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. Her other awards include Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award for Excellence (2003), an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (2017), and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2016).

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