Curdella forbes biography

Jamaican academic and writer

Curdella Forbes is a Jamaicanacademic and author, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction for A Tall History of Sugar.

Life and career

Forbes has been professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University since 2004 after working at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which was where she also received her doctorate in 2000.

She has also been writer in residence at University of the West Indies, Mona.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Selected works

Novels

• Songs of Silence (2002)
• Flying with Icarus (2003)
• A Permanent Freedom (2008)
• Ghosts (2014)
• A Tall History of Sugar (2019)

Non-fiction

• Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications for Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture (1997)
• Tropes of the Carnivalesque: Hermaphroditic Gender as Identity in Slave Society and in West