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The 2019 NGC Bocas Lit Fest line-up of writers, speakers, and performers.
Abigail Parry
Author of Jinx
Alake Pilgrim
Fiction Writer
Alexia Arthurs
Author of How to Love A Jamaican
Amílcar Sanatan
Writer | Academic | Activist
Andre Bagoo
Author of 'The Undiscovered Country'
Anthony Wall
Arena Film Director and Creative Advisor
Anu Lakhan
Writer | Editorial consultant
Arielle John
Writer | Cultural Researcher
Attillah Springer
Writer and activist
Ayanna Gillian Lloyd
fiction and creative non-fiction writer
Barbara Lalla
Professor Emerita of language and literature | Novelist
Black Sage
Calypsonian | Extempo lyricist
Breanne McIvor
Author of Here There Are Monsters
Brian London
Calypsonian
Bridget Brereton
Professor Emerita of history | Author
Canisia Lubrin
Author of 'The Dyzgraphxst'
Caryl Phillips
Author of A View of the Empire at Sunset
Celeste Mohammed
2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Winner
Christine Norton
Director of The Noel Norton Collection Limited
Claire Adam
Author of Golden Child
Colin Robinson
Poet | Journalist | Human rights activist
Danez Smith
Winner of the Forward Prize
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry
Derry Sandy
Author of Greyborn Rising
Desiree Seebaran
Winner of the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for poetry
Diana Evans
Author of Ordinary People
Diana McCaulay
Author of 'Daylight Come'
Earl Lovelace
Critically-acclaimed Trinidadian writer
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Author of 'Stick No Bills'
Emma D’Costa
Commonwealth Foundation
Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite
Author of Empty Arms
Franka Philip
Journalist and Media Consultant
Funso Aiyejina
Deputy Festival Director, NGC Bocas Lit Fest | Nigerian prize-winning writer based in Trinidad
Gabrielle Hosein
Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI St. Augustine
Gary Hector
Founder of T&T band jointpop
Gary Younge
Award-winning author, broadcaster and columnist
Geoffrey Philp
Author
Gordon Rohlehr
Professor Emeritus of West Indian Literature at UWI, St. Augustine
Heather Cateau
Historian
Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice
Ian Randle
Publisher
Ingrid Persaud
Author of 'Love after Love'
Ivette Romero
Professor
Jacob Ross
Author of 'Black Rain Falling'
Jacqueline Laguardia
Cuban academic
James Aboud
Poet
Jane Bryce
Professor Emerita, UWI Cave Hill
Janet Steel
Commonwealth Writers
Javier Carbajosa
Ambassador of Spain to Trinidad and Tobago
Jeanelle Frontin
Author of The YaraStar trilogy
Jennifer Thomas-Straker
Author of The Village, The Child
José Serulle
Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Trinidad and Tobago
Judy Raymond
Author of Beryl McBurnie
June Soomer
Secretary General of the ACS
Karen Lord
Author of 'Unravelling'
Keith Jardim
Author of Near Open Water
Ken Ramchand
Professor Emeritus of West Indian literature | Literary critic
Kendel Hippolyte
Poet, playwright and director
Kevin Adonis Browne
Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize
Kevin Jared Hosein
Winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Krystal A. Sital
Author of Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad
Lesley-Ann Brown
Author of Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Author of 'Home Home'
Lucy Hannah
Writer and producer
Luke Neima
Online editor and digital director of Granta magazine
Marcia Douglas
Author of The Marvellous Equations of the Dread
Margaret Busby
Editor of New Daughters of Africa (anthology)
Maria Nunes
Photographer | Producer
Mariano Brown
political commentator and former Minister
Marina Warner
Writer of fiction, cultural history, and criticism
Mark Lyndersay
Photographer and reporter
Marlon James
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Merle Hodge
Co-facilitator of the Cropper Foundation Writers’ Workshop.
Motilal Boodoosingh
Author of Kal Kahanis
Muli Amaye
Author of A House With No Angels
Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican-Canadian Speculative Fiction Writer
Néhémy Pierre Dahomey
Poet, philosopher and novelist
Nicholas Laughlin
Programme Director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest
Nick Makoha
Poet
Nicola Ramsaran
Author and mental health advocate
Nicole Sealey
Author of Ordinary Beast
Nigel Campbell
Music Industry Analyst
Patti-Anne Ali
Writer, Director, Actor
Paula Gopee-Scoon
Minister of Trade and Industry
Prithiviraj Bahadursingh
Author of 'For The Love of Pan'
Raymond Ramcharitar
Writer, journalist, cultural critic
Regina Dumas
Author of Memoir of a Cocoa Farmer's Daughter.
Ruth Osman
Singer/songwriter
Schuyler Esprit
Cultural studies academic and founder of Create Caribbean Research Institute
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College
Sharda Patasar
cultural researcher & musician
Sharlan Bailey
Musician, composer/songwriter, producer, and performer
Shivanee Ramlochan
Poet | critic | book blogger
Sofia Chote
Attorney and Independent Senator
Stella Chong Sing
Writer in We Mark Your Memory
Tamika Gibson
Author of Dreams Beyond the Shore
Theresa Awai
Author of 'Swing High, Iron Pot and Other Stories'
Tristan Walker
Author of Another Last Chance
Vashti Bowlah
Author of Sugarcane Valley
Yuri Herrera
Author of Signs Preceding the End of the World