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Lorna Goodison
Jamaican poet and writer (born 1947)
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| Born | Lorna Gaye Goodison (1947-08-01) 1 August 1947 (age 77) Kingston, Colony of Jamaica, British Empire |
| Occupation(s) | Poet; essayist; memoirist; painter |
| Known for | Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017–2020 |
| Notable work | I Am Becoming My Mother (1986); From Harvey River (2007); Oracabessa (2013) |
| Relatives | Barbara Gloudon (sister) |
| Awards | Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 1982 Musgrave Gold Medal, 1999 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, 2008; Order of Distinction, 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, 2018 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2019 American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2020 |
Lorna Gaye GoodisonCD (born 1 August 1947)[1] is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades.
She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Af