Olive Senior

Auteur de Summer Lightning and Other Stories

23+ oeuvres 354 utilisateurs 9 critiques 1 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Olive Senior is one of Canada's most internationally recognized and acclaimed writers. Among her many awards and honours she has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and F.G. Bressani Literary Prize, was nominated for a Governor-General's Literary Award, and was runner up for the Casa de Las Americas afficher plus Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. In 2003 she received the Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award for Excellence (preservation of cultural heritage - Jamaica). Her body of published work includes four books of poetry, three collections of short stories and several award-winning non-fiction works on Caribbean culture. afficher moins

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Œuvres de Olive Senior

Populaires Récent

Summer Lightning and Other Stories (1987) 73 exemplaires

Anna Carries Water (2013) 56 exemplaires

Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories (1989) 33 exemplaires

Gardening in the Tropics (1994) 29 exemplaires

Discerner of Hearts (1995) 24 exemplaires

Boonoonoonous Hair (2019) 19 exemplaires

Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-speaking Caribbean (1991) 18 exemplaires

Birthday Suit (2012) 14 exemplaires

Dancing Lessons (2011) 14 exemplaires

The Pain Tree (2017) 12 exemplaires

Encyclopedia Of Jamaican Heritage (2003) 11 exemplaires

A-Z of Jamaican Heritage (1983) 8 exemplaires

Over the Roofs of the World (2005) 7 exemplaires

Shell (2007) 7 exemplaires

Dying to better themselves : West Indians and the building of the Panama Canal (2014) 6 exemplaires

Talking of trees (1985) 6 exemplaires

Pandemic Poems: First Wave (2021) 4 exemplaires

Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems (2022) 4 exemplaires

Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean (2014) 3 exemplaires

The message is change: a perspective on the 1972 general elections 2 exemplaires

Das Erscheinen der Schlangenfrau (1998) 2 exemplaires

Working miracles : women's lives in the English-speaking Caribbean / Olive Senior 1 exemplaire

Zigzag (2010) 1 exemplaire

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Oeuvres associées

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (1997) — Contributeur — 285 exemplaires

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributeur — 159 exemplaires

Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 108 exemplaires

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000) — Contributeur — 80 exemplaires

Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires

Pepperpot: best new stories from the Caribbean (2014) — Préface — 36 exemplaires

Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires

Jamaica Woman An Anthology of Poems (1982) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires

The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (1990) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires

Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry (1998) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires

Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires

Bittersweet (1998) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires

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Nom légal: Senior, Olive Marjorie
Date de naissance: 1941-12-23
Sexe: female
Nationalité: Jamaica (birth)
Canada
Lieu de naissance: Trelawny, Jamaica
Lieux de résidence: Portugal
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Études: Carleton University
Prix et distinctions: Musgrave Gold Medal (2005)

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Critiques

Anna Carries Water par Olive Senior

A lively, colorful story set in Jamaica about the youngest member of a family who wants to overcome her fear of cows and carry as much water on her head as her older siblings are able to do.

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Sullywriter | 4 autres critiques | May 22, 2015 |

Anna Carries Water par Olive Senior

I will be using this book to teach summarizes to third grade. It is an easy read and the pictures are beautiful!

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LisaMarie214 | 4 autres critiques | Mar 15, 2015 |

Anna Carries Water par Olive Senior

"Anna Carries Water" is a story about a young girl who dreams of being able to carry water in a bucket on her head. Her family comes from a village where they don't have access to tap water. All of Anna's neighborhood friends are very good at carrying the water they have retrieved on their heads but Anna continually struggles. One day they go to get water and Anna tries to hold her can of water on her head but fails miserably. That night Anna's mother tells her that one day she will simply have acquired the skill and it will come naturally. The next time her siblings headed out Anna went with them. On the way back she was scared by the neighbors cows and ran with the can of water on her head, no problem. In the end her mother rejoices in Anna's success that came naturally and Anna rejoices by doing a cartwheel.… (plus d'informations)

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Ebarclift13 | 4 autres critiques | Mar 10, 2015 |

Anna Carries Water par Olive Senior

Summary:
Annas job everyday was to go to fetch water from the spring. All her older brothers and sisters use a pail and carry the water on her head. She gets discouraged when she can not be like all the other kids and carry water on her head. She trys over and over and finally gets it.

Personal Experience:
I realate with her because when I want to do something even if i cant I keep trying untill I can get it.

Classroom Extension:
1. I would get a pale and put something with a little weight in it and have the students try to carry the pale on their heads.
2. Have the students talk about something that the wish that they could learn how to do and set a goal to learn to do it.… (plus d'informations)

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shelby22 | 4 autres critiques | Jul 16, 2014 |

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