Vanessa Spence Explained

Vanessa Spence (born 1961, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican novelist. Her first novel, The Roads Are Down, won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean.^[1]

She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the University of Oxford, and Yale University.^[2] She works as an economist, in Kingston.She lives in the Blue Mountains.

Awards

• 1994, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean

Works

• The Roads Are Down, Heinemann, 1993,

External links

• Author's website

Reviews

• "Book Review: The Roads are Down by Vanessa Spence", Wamathai, 5 May 2011

Criticism

• "Her foolish heart", The Caribbean Review of Books, May 2009
• "Revolutionary roads", The Caribbean Review of Books, July 2010

Notes and References

1. Web site: Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007 . Commonwealth Foundation . https://web.archive.org/web/20071023223729/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf . 23 October 2007 . dead.
2. http://www.heinemann.com/authors/810.aspx "Vanessa Spence"