Barbara Jenkins
Barbara Jenkins was born in Trinidad. She studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at the University College, Cardiff. She married a fellow student, and they continued to live in Wales through the whole decade of the sixties. In the early seventies they returned to Trinidad.
Since she started writing in 2008, her stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Caribbean Region in 2010 and 2011; the Wasafiri New Writing Prize; The Canute Brodhurst Prize for short fiction, The Caribbean Writer; the Small Axe short story competition, 2011; the Romance Category, My African Diaspora Short Story Contest; and the inaugural The Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) Prize for a film review of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, 2012. In 2013 she was named winner of the inaugural Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize. Her debut short story collection, Sic Transit Wagon (Peepal Tree, 2013) was awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award. Her debut novel, De Rightest Place (Peepal Tree, 2018) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize.
She completed her MFA at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, in 2012. She spends her time reading, writing, singing in a choir, serving on the boards of two NGOs and seeing in person and virtually her globally-scattered three children and nine grandchildren.
Titles featuring Barbara Jenkins
- PepperpotPrice: £7.99
- Sic Transit Wagon and other storiesPrice: £8.99
- De Rightest PlacePrice: £10.99
- The Stranger Who Was MyselfPrice: £12.99
Book reviews for Barbara Jenkins
- De Rightest PlacePrice: £10.99
Review written by Bridget Brereton for T&T Guardian Review written by Erin Britton for nudge-book Review written by Bridget Brereton for Paper Based Bookshop Review written by Claire Adam for The Guardian Review written by John Robert Lee for Facebook Review written by Ann-Margaret Lim for The Jamaica Gleaner Review written by Bernardine Evaristo for The Guardian - The Stranger Who Was MyselfPrice: £12.99
Review written by NGC Bocas Lit Fest for Trinidad Express Review written by Richard Price and Sally Price for New West Indian Guide