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Jennifer Rahim is a Trinidadian writer. Her 2009 poetry collection Approaching Sabbaths received a Casa de las Américas Prize in 2010,[1] for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole.[2]

She won the fiction category and the overall 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, awarded at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, for her 2017 book Curfew Chronicles.[3][4][5]

Selected works

• Between the Fence and the Forest, poetry (2002), ISBN 9781900715270
• Songster and Other Stories, short stories (2007), ISBN 9781845230487
• Approaching Sabbaths, poetry (2009), ISBN 9781845231156
• Ground Level, poetry (2014), ISBN 9781845232054
• Curfew Chronicles (2017), ISBN 9781845233624

Selected awards

• 1992: Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago Writer of the Year Award for Mothers Are Not The Only Linguists[6]
• 1993: New Voices Award of Merit for outstanding contributions to New Voices journal
• 1996: Gulf Insurance Writers Scholarship to attend the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, University of Miami; ;
• 2010: Casa de las Américas Prize for Approaching Sabbaths
• 2018: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Curfew Chronicles.

See also

• Caribbean literature
• Caribbean poetry

References

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