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Miami Book Fair International set for Nov. 12-19


Some of the brightest liter-
 ary minds to come out of
 the Caribbean will be
among those featured at this
year's Miami Book Fair
International set for Nov. 12-
19.
 The book fair, which has
attracted dozens of award-
winning writers from around
the world, will be held at the
Miami-Dade College Wolfson


campus, downtown the South
Florida city.
 The 2006 book fair is
expected to offer eight days of
fun-filled activities, including
the "Street Fair" on the week-
end of Nov. 17-19, featuring
readings by established and
aspiring authors, plus a wide
selection of books for collec-
tors to choose from and inter-
national pavilions showcasing


the books, arts, food and
drinks from around the world.

200 WRITERS
 Isabel Allende, Thomas
Cahill, Nora Ephron, Edward
P. Jones and Robert Olen
Butler are among the cele-
brated authors who are sched-
uled be among more than 200
in attendance this year. They
will joined by many writers


from the Caribbean, including
Kamau Brathwaite, Deborah
Jack, Philip, Dawad, Shara
McCallum, Lorna Goodison,
Lawrence Scott and Mervyn
Taylor.
 Miami Book Fair
International is one of the
largest presenters of Spanish-
language writers in the nation,
offering a rich Hispanic pro-
gram as a complement to


English-language events.
 Miami Book Fair
International is a premier pro-
gram of the Florida Center for
the Literary Arts at Miami
Dade College and is held at
MDC's Wolfson campus at 300
N.E. Second Ave., Miami,
Florida, and surrounding
downtown streets.
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Caribbean authors join Miami's page turning experience


Below Caribbean Today fea-
tures profiles of Caribbean
writers who are scheduled to
participate in the Miami
International Book Fair.

KAMAU BRATHWAITE
 Kamau
Brathwaite
was born in
Barbados and
is a poet, per-
former, cultur-
al theorist and
researcher. His
most recent
book is "Born
to Slow Horses" (2005), but
he has authored other works,
including "Ancestors: A
Reinvention of Mother
Poem", "Sun Poem and X-
Self" ( New Directions, 2001),
"The Arrivants: A New World
Trilogy: Rights of Passage
Masks-Island" (Oxford,
1968); "Zea Mexican Diary"
(Wisconsin Press, 1993),
"Dream Stories" (Longman,
1993), "Middle Pt,,g,
(New York: New Directions,
1993) and "The Development
of Creole Society in Jamaica
1770-1820" (Oxford 1971).
 Brathwaite has received
numerous awards, among
them the Neustadt
International Prize for
Literature, the Bussa Award,
the Casa de las Americas
Prize, and the Charity Randall
Prize for Performance and
Written Poetry. He has also
received GuInL n-iiim and
Fulbright fellowships.
 His book "The Zea
Mexican Diary" (1992) was
The Village Voice Book of the
Year. Earlier this year
Brathwaite was awarded the
Griffin (International) Poetry
Prize in Canada for his newest
work "Born to Slow Horses".
 He is a co-founder of the
Caribbean Artists Movement
and was educated at Pembroke
College, Cambridge and has a
PhD from the University of
Sussex in the United Kingdom.
He has been professor of com-
parative ILiterature at New
York University since 1993.

DEBORAH JACK
 Deborah Jack was born in
Amsterdam and grew up in
St. Martin. She is a poet and


artist.
 Her col-
lected poems,
"The Rainy
Sarli IIn r(St
Martin: House
of Nehesi,
1997), is her
first published
book. Her
poems have appeared in "The
Caribbean Writer" and
"Calabash".
 Awards and honors
include a Caribbean Writers
Institute Fellow, University of
Miami, Prince Bernard
Culture Fund grants,
University at Buffalo College
of Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Fellowship.
 Jack was listed as one of
the nation's most popular
artists at the turn of the centu-
ry in "St. Martin Massive! A
Snapshot of Popular Artists"
(1999). She is currently an
assistant professor of art at
New Jersey City University in
New Jersey.

SHARA McCALLUM
Shara
McCallum is
the author
of two books
of poems
from the
University
of Pittsburgh
Press, "Song
of Thieves"
(2003) and
"The Water Between Us"
(1999, winner of the 1998
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry
Prize).
 Originally from Jamaica,
McCallum directs the Stadler
Center for Poetry and teaches
at Bucknell University. She is
also on the faculty of the
Stonecoast Low Residency
MFA program. She lives in
Pennsylvania with her family.

MERVYN TAYLOR
 Mervyn
Taylor was
born in
Trinidad and is
the author of
three books of
poetry, "An
Island of His
Own" (1992),
"The Goat"


(1999), and "Gone Away"
(2006), all from Junction
Press, and a compact disc,
"Road Clear" (2004), done in
collaboration with bassist
David Williams.
 About the poems in his
latest collection Debbie Jacob
wrote in her column in the
Trinidad Guardian, "Lost in
the cold and unable to return
home to the tropics, the West
Indians of Taylor's poems
reach as far as they can:
Florida". Taylor lives in
Brooklyn, New York.

LAWRENCE SCOTT
Lawrence
Scott is from
Trinidad and
Tobago. He is
the prize-win-
ning author of
the novel
"Aelred's Sin"
(London:
Allison &
Busby, 1998),
which won a
Commonwealth Writers'
Prize, Best Book in the
Caribbean & Canada 1999.
"Night C.,1 p1,, (Allison&
Busby, 2004), his most recent
novel, was short-listed for a
Commonwealth Writers'
Prize, Best Book in Canada &
the Caribbean
and nominated for The
International Impac Dublin
Literary Award 2006 and was
published in France as
Calypso de Nuit in June 2005.
His first novel, "Witchbroom"
(Allison, 1992, Heinemann,
1993) was also short-listed for
a Commonwealth Writers'
Prize for Best First Book in
Canada & the Caribbean,
1993.
 His short stories have
been read on the BBC and
have been anthologized inter-
nationally, notably in The
Penguin Book of Caribbean
Short Stories and The Oxford
Book of Caribbean Short
Stories. He divides his time
between writing and teaching
literature and creative writing.

RAMABAI ESPINET
Ramabai Espinet was born in
Trinidad and Tobago. She is a
poet, essayist and critic. Her
first novel, "The Swinging


Bridge" (Toronto: Harper
Flamingo, 2003), was short-list-
ed for the 2004 Commonwealth
Writers Prize in the category of
Best First Book (Caribbean
and Canada Region), long-list-
ed for the IMPAC Dublin 2005
prize for fiction and selected for
the Robert Adams lecture
series 2005, held annually in
Toronto and Montreal, and fea-
turing Adams's pick of "mod-
em ~L. I ii '.
 Other works by Espinet
include the poetry collection
"Nuclear SL,,ii,' (1991)
and the children's books "The
Princess of Spadina" (Toronto:
Sister Vision, 1992) and
N inIj Carniva" (Sister
Vision, 1993).
 Her performance pieces
"Beyond the Kala Pani", and
"Indian Robber Talk" both
explore the historical record
of South Asian immigration
to the Caribbean. A docu-
mentary, "Coming Home"
(Caribbean Tales/Leda Serene
Films), and focused upon the
context of Espinet's work,
especially "The Swinging
BrIdgL was released in 2005.
Espinet is a professor of
English at Seneca College in
Toronto in the School of
English and Liberal Studies.
She also teaches at the


University of Toronto in the
Department of Caribbean
Studies and the Institute for
Women's Studies and Gender
Studies. She lives in Toronto.

DAWAD PHILIP
 Dawad Philip was born in
Trinidad. He is a poet and
painter and cultural activist,
as well as (formerly) a journal-
ist in the United States. He
is the author of "Invocations"


and his work has appeared
in several anthologies, includ-
ing, most recently, "Poetry
International's English
Language Poetry from Around
the World" (2003-2004).
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