Mordecai, Pamela (1942–)
Mordecai, Pamela (1942–)
Jamaican-born poet, editor and children's writer. Born 1942 in Jamaica; m. Martin Mordecai.
Worked as English teacher, radio broadcaster, and film interviewer; employed as publications officer for School of Education at University of West Indies; with husband, established Sandberry Press in Kingston; edited journals and poetry anthologies; work focuses on development of language arts in Carribean; poems published in anthologies The Caribbean Poem (1976) and Ambakaila (1976) and in journals including Savacou, Jamaica Journal, and Caribbean Quarterly; edited Caribbean Quarterly and contributed to Jamaica Woman.
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BORN: 1907, York, England
DIED: 1973, Vienna, Austria
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry, Nonfiction
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