Olive Senior
is one of the most widely read Caribbean writers. Some of her books are required reading in Caribbean primary schools and in several international high schools and universities. She has published across genres—non-fiction, short stories, a novel, several volumes of poetry, and children's fiction. Her works have appeared in many anthologies globally and have been translated into several languages including Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian. Her first collection of short stories, Summer Lightning, won the inaugural Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 1987.