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Verandah Chat with Kei Miller

1 PM Jamaican Time
2 PM EST | 7 PM BST

In partnership with Renaissance One

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Kei Miller is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer and a broadcaster.  His 2014 collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. In April 2017 he won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for his novel Augustown.  In 2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature. 

His poetry has also been shortlisted for awards such as the Jonathan Llewelyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year. His fiction has won the Una Marson Prize and has been shortlisted for the Phyllis Wheatley Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.