Persaud, Ingrid

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Name (Latin)
Persaud, Ingrid
Date of birth
1966-07-06
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 274440426
Wikidata: Q91977874
Library of congress: no 92010304
HAI10: 000222430
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Wikipedia description:

Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidad and Tobago-born writer, artist, and academic, who lives in the United Kingdom. A Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature, she won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018 and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 with her debut short story "The Sweet Sop". The narrative revolves around an estranged father and son reuniting through their shared love for chocolate. Ingrid's first book, Love After Love was published in 2020; it won the Costa Book Award for First Novel. In 2024, Persaud released her latest novel, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh.

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