Diana McCaulay
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Diana McCaulay

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Diana McCaulay is a much nominated and awarded Jamaican writer and a lifelong resident of its capital city Kingston. She has written six novels - DOG-HEART (March 2010), HURACAN (July 2012), both published by Peepal Tree Press in the United Kingdom, GONE TO DRIFT (February 2016), published by Papillote Press from Dominica and the UK and Harper Collins US, the self-published, WHITE LIVER GAL (May 2017), DAYLIGHT COME (September 2020) published by Peepal Tree Press. She has also written a children's book, FINNY THE FAIRY FISH (2020), published by Collins Big Cat. Her forthcoming title is A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE, published by Dialogue Books in the UK and Algonquin Books in the US, release date is 25 February 2025. Diana founded the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) in 1991 and has been a vocal and insistent voice for Jamaica's natural resources. She retired in 2017, but during her time leading JET, she interacted with all levels of Jamaican society from the Prime Minister and Cabinet officials to rural Jamaicans displaced by development and fishers denied access to beaches. Diana’s writing contains an authenticity and vibrancy derived from her active participation at so many levels of Jamaican society. She was a popular newspaper columnist for The Gleaner (1994-2001) and her short fiction has been published by Granta Online, Adda Stories, Eleven Eleven, The Caribbean Writer, Afro-Beat, Lifestyle Magazine and the Jamaica Observer’s literary supplement, Bookends. She won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2012 and again in 2022 and her short story, PICKING CRABS IN NEGRIL, won the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez prize September 2024. Diana was born into the Jamaican upper-middle class and has spent a lifetime pondering questions of race, class, colour, and privilege in Jamaican society. Infused with her love of the island itself with all its beauty and tragedy, Diana’s novels celebrate the unique spirit and complexity of contemporary Jamaica. The honest and penetrating insights in her novels and stories come from sharp observation and profound self-reflection, and often arise out of experiences similar to the ones she writes about. Hers is a uniquely authentic voice from a background which usually turns away from all that she unflinchingly faces.
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