Marina Salandy-Brown

Marina Salandy-Brown
FRSA, Hon. FRSL
Salandy-Brown presents the 2019 Henry Swanzy Award to Ian Randle at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest
Born
Marina Salandy

Diego Martin, Trinidad
Occupation(s)Journalist, broadcaster and cultural activist
Known forFounder of NGC Bocas Lit Fest
AwardsHummingbird Medal (silver)

Marina Salandy-Brown FRSA, Hon. FRSL, is a Trinidadian journalist, broadcaster and cultural activist. She was formerly an editor and Senior Manager in Radio and News and Current Affairs programmes with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London,[1] one of the BBC's few top executives from an ethnic minority background.[2] She is the founder and inaugural director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest,[3][4] held annually in Trinidad and Tobago since 2011, "the biggest literary festival in the Anglophone Caribbean",[5][6] and of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.[7][8] She was also co-founder of the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize.[9][10]

In 2020, Salandy-Brown received the Ferdinand Magellan Award from Chile, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Literature.[11][12] In 2022, she received the Hummingbird Silver Medal at the National Awards ceremony in Port of Spain, Trinidad.[13]

  1. ^ Court of Governors, University of Westminster.
  2. ^ Tessa Blackstone, Bhikhu Parekh, Peter Sanders (eds), Race Relations in Britain: A Developing Agenda, Routledge, 1998.
  3. ^ Maya Jaggi, "A homecoming", Financial Times, 27 May 2011.
  4. ^ The NGC Bocas Lit Fest – The Trinidad and Tobago Literary Festival.
  5. ^ "NGC Bocas Lit Fest Debate on TV6 today". Archived 28 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Trinidad Express Newspapers, 22 April 2012.
  6. ^ Carolyn Cooper, "T&T Lit Fest Puts Us to Shame", Jamaica Gleaner, 8 May 2011.
  7. ^ "New Annual Prize For Caribbean Literature To Be Launched" Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Book2Book, 23 November 2010.
  8. ^ "Entries open for 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean" Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Trinidad Express Newspapers, 15 September 2011.
  9. ^ Marina Salandy-Brown biography, Conference Programme, June 2012, p. 12, The Literary Consultancy.
  10. ^ "Announcing the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize", Bocas News, 1 May 2012, NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2012.
  11. ^ "Marina Salandy-Brown Hon FRSL". Royal Society of Literature. 29 November 2020 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ Kim Boodram (1 December 2020). "Lit Fest founder lands 2 International awards". Trinidad Express.
  13. ^ Janelle De Souza (25 September 2022). "Rondon, Salandy-Brown, Hosein humbled by awards". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.