Colin Channer COLIN CHANNER, best-selling Jamaican author, will be writer in residence at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, from November 17 to 21.
The week of activities starts off on Tuesday, November 18 at 5:30 p.m. with a public lecture by Mr. Channer entitled The most important thing you need to know about writing novels, plays or movies from a guy who should know. This is to be given at the multi-functional room at the UWI Library. The following evening, Wednesday, November 19th, Channer will give a public reading of his work at 5:30 p.m. at the Undercroft.
The author's visit is sponsored by the Ford Foundation, under a cultural studies initiative. It is meant to enable the campus community and the general public to interact with this generation of Caribbean writers born after the Independence
period.
Raised in Kingston, Channer
is the author of two novels, a novella and many short stories. His last novel, Satisfy My Soul has received tremendous acclaim in the United States and has made history in Jamaica by selling more copies than any other novel, while his first novel, Waiting In Vain, also had a major impact.
Colin Channer, founder and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, has taught fiction writing in London, New York and Jamaica. This will be his second residency at UWI, attached to the Institute of Caribbean Studies.
SHORT BIO
Channer's first novel, Waiting In Vain, was selected as a 1998 Critics Choice by the Washington Post. It was also excerpted in Hot Spots: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction. His novella, I'm Still Waiting, was published in the bestselling volume Got To Be Real.
His next work, Passing Through, is a collection of short stories and will be published in May 2004.
The writer was born in Jamaica in 1963. He was raised in Kingston and attended Ardenne and Meadowbrook before moving to New York, where he studied electronic journalism and Spanish. He is the bass player for the reggae band Pipecock Jaxxon.
