Kei Miller - The Important Things
Forward Prize-winning Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller explores some of the unarticulated territory and unwritten rules that lie between a black writer and a white audience.
Reflecting on the complex dynamics of race and power in the world he moves in Kei Miller offers some challenging thoughts about being a black writer in a white literary world.
Kei Miller was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1978. He now lives and teaches in London, was formerly based in Glasgow and spends a great deal of his time in Jamaica.
'The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion' won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2014. In the same year his collection of essays Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Non-fiction). His novel The Last Warner Woman was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2010.
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