Authors
C. Everald Palmer
Cyril Everard Palmer
(1940 - )
Mr. Palmer was born in Kendal , Hanover in 1940 and was educated at Kendal Elementary School. He studied at MicoTeachers’ College in Kingston and later still at Lakeside University in Canada. He worked as a journalist with the Gleaner Company before embarking on a career as an author.
He was a prolific author of children’s books set in the Jamaican countryside and has received high praise for the excellence of his craftsmanship and sympathetic humour. Mr. Palmer has published The Cloud with the Silver Lining, Big Doc Bitterroot, The Sun Salutes You, The Hummingbird People, The Wooing of Beppo Tate, A Cow Called Boy, Babbaand Mr. Big, My Father Sun Sun Johnson. An adult book, A Broken Vessel was published in 1960 by the Jamaica Pioneer Press.
Everald Palmer has been recognized for his great work in Jamaican Literature.
Among his awards are:
Reference:
http://www.nlj.gov.jm/bios-n-z#p
(1940 - )
Mr. Palmer was born in Kendal , Hanover in 1940 and was educated at Kendal Elementary School. He studied at MicoTeachers’ College in Kingston and later still at Lakeside University in Canada. He worked as a journalist with the Gleaner Company before embarking on a career as an author.
He was a prolific author of children’s books set in the Jamaican countryside and has received high praise for the excellence of his craftsmanship and sympathetic humour. Mr. Palmer has published The Cloud with the Silver Lining, Big Doc Bitterroot, The Sun Salutes You, The Hummingbird People, The Wooing of Beppo Tate, A Cow Called Boy, Babbaand Mr. Big, My Father Sun Sun Johnson. An adult book, A Broken Vessel was published in 1960 by the Jamaica Pioneer Press.
Everald Palmer has been recognized for his great work in Jamaican Literature.
Among his awards are:
- Certificate of Merit by the Jamaican Reading Association for contribution to Jamaican Children Literature
- 1977 Silver Musgrave Medal for Literature from the Institute of Jamaica
- In 1999 he was honoured at a ceremony held in Hanover where a message from the Canadian High Commissioner John Robinson, read by Councillor at the Canadian High Commission Robert Richard, described Mr. Palmer as ‘the master of the rural Caribbean tale for any readership, adult or juvenile’.
Reference:
http://www.nlj.gov.jm/bios-n-z#p
Ian Serraillier
Ian Serraillier (September 24, 1912 - November 28, 1994), was a British novelist and poet. Serraillier was best known for his children's books, especially the Silver Sword (Novel) (1956), a wartime adventure story which was adapted for television by the BBC in 1957 and again in 1971.
Born in London, Serraillier was educated at Brighton College, and took his degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He became an English teacher, first at World War II. It was during this period that his first published work appeared, in the form of poetry for both adults and children. In 1946 his first children's novel was published. It was followed by several more adventure stories of treasure and spies. His best known work, The Silver Sword, was published in 1956 and has become a classic, bringing to life the story of four refugee children and their search for their parents in the chaos of Europe immediately after World War II.
As well as children's novels and poetry, Serrailler produced his own retellings of classic tales, in prose and verse, including Beowulf, Chaucer and Greek myth. Together with his wife Anne he founded the New Windmill Series in 1948, published by Heinemann Educational Books, which set out to provide inexpensive editions of good stories. He continued as co-editor of the series until the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Reference:
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/authors/ian-serraillier.aspx
Born in London, Serraillier was educated at Brighton College, and took his degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He became an English teacher, first at World War II. It was during this period that his first published work appeared, in the form of poetry for both adults and children. In 1946 his first children's novel was published. It was followed by several more adventure stories of treasure and spies. His best known work, The Silver Sword, was published in 1956 and has become a classic, bringing to life the story of four refugee children and their search for their parents in the chaos of Europe immediately after World War II.
As well as children's novels and poetry, Serrailler produced his own retellings of classic tales, in prose and verse, including Beowulf, Chaucer and Greek myth. Together with his wife Anne he founded the New Windmill Series in 1948, published by Heinemann Educational Books, which set out to provide inexpensive editions of good stories. He continued as co-editor of the series until the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Reference:
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/authors/ian-serraillier.aspx
Jean D'Costa
Jean D’Costa (nee Creary) was born on January 13, 1937, the last of three children. Her parents were both elementary school teachers who lived and worked in various parts of rural Jamaica. In 1948 she won a government scholarship to St Hilda’s High School in Brown’s Town. Here she spent six years, three of them in 1949-54. After two more terms at St Hugh’s High school in Kingston in 1955, she entered the University College of the West Indies and read for an honours degree in English (1955-58).
She was hired to teach Old English and linguistics at U.C.W.I., Mona (1962-77). Between 1977 and 1980 she was engaged in research into archaic Jamaican creole and culture, along with freelance writing. She then taught creative writing, linguistics, Caribbean literature and Old English at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (1980-98).
Her children’s fiction includes Sprat Morrison (1972; 1990), Escape to Last Man Peak (1976), Voice in the Wind (1978) for ages ten to twelve. For children aged seven to ten, she has published Duppy Tales (1997), Caesar and the Three Robbers (1996), along with Jenny and the General (2006) and, with Velma Pollard, co-edited and co-authored an anthology of short stories, Over Our Way (1981; 1993).
She lives in Florida with her husband, David D’Costa.
Reference:
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/conferences/2006/monaconf/profiles/dacosta.htm
She was hired to teach Old English and linguistics at U.C.W.I., Mona (1962-77). Between 1977 and 1980 she was engaged in research into archaic Jamaican creole and culture, along with freelance writing. She then taught creative writing, linguistics, Caribbean literature and Old English at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (1980-98).
Her children’s fiction includes Sprat Morrison (1972; 1990), Escape to Last Man Peak (1976), Voice in the Wind (1978) for ages ten to twelve. For children aged seven to ten, she has published Duppy Tales (1997), Caesar and the Three Robbers (1996), along with Jenny and the General (2006) and, with Velma Pollard, co-edited and co-authored an anthology of short stories, Over Our Way (1981; 1993).
She lives in Florida with her husband, David D’Costa.
Reference:
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/conferences/2006/monaconf/profiles/dacosta.htm
Velma Pollard
Velma Pollard was born in Jamaica in 1937, educated at Excelsior High School in Kingston and at the University College of the West Indies. She received an MA in Education from McGill University and an MA in the teaching of English from Columbia University. She taught in high schools and universities in Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and the USA. Since 1975 she has taught at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Language Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of the West Indies.
She has always written. She won her first prize for a poem at the age of seven, but none of her work went beyond her desk until 1975 when encouraged by her sister Erna Brodber and others, notably Jean D'Costa who sent one of her stories to Jamaica Journal, she started sending pieces to journals in the region. She published Crown Point and Other Poems and Shame Trees Don't Grow Here with Peepal Tree in 1988 and 1992 respectively. Considering Woman, a collection of prose pieces was published by The Women's Press in 1989. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas in 1992. Her monograph, Dread Talk - the Language of the Rastafari was published in 1994 by Canoe Press. She has also edited several anthologies of writing for schools.
She is the mother of three children.
She has always written. She won her first prize for a poem at the age of seven, but none of her work went beyond her desk until 1975 when encouraged by her sister Erna Brodber and others, notably Jean D'Costa who sent one of her stories to Jamaica Journal, she started sending pieces to journals in the region. She published Crown Point and Other Poems and Shame Trees Don't Grow Here with Peepal Tree in 1988 and 1992 respectively. Considering Woman, a collection of prose pieces was published by The Women's Press in 1989. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas in 1992. Her monograph, Dread Talk - the Language of the Rastafari was published in 1994 by Canoe Press. She has also edited several anthologies of writing for schools.
She is the mother of three children.