Vanessa Spence

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, ISBN 978-0-435-98930-9

References

1. "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2007.
2. "Vanessa Spence" at Heinemann.

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