Name Erna Brodber | Role Writer | |
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Education University of the West Indies Books Myal, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Co, The Rainmaker's Mistake, Louisiana: A Novel, Woodside - Pear Tree Grove PO | ||
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Erna Brodber (born 20 April 1940) is a Jamaican writer, sociologist and social activist. She is the sister of writer Velma Pollard.
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Biography
Born in the farming village of Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, she gained a B.A. from the University College of the West Indies, followed by an M.Sc and Ph.D. She subsequently worked as a civil servant, teacher, sociology lecturer, and at the Institute for Social and Economic Research in the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica. She subsequently left the university to work full time in her home community of Woodside.
She is the author of five novels: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980), Myal (1988), Louisiana (1994), The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007), and Nothing's Mat (2014). Brodber works as a freelance writer, researcher and lecturer in Jamaica. She is currently Writer in Residence at the University of the West Indies.
Awards and honours
She won the Caribbean and Canadian regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989 for Myal. In 1999 she received the Jamaican Musgrave Gold Award for Literature and Orature. She received a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in 2017.
