Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidad and Tobago-born award-winning writer, artist, and academic, who now lives between Barbados and the United Kingdom. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017, with her debut effort The Sweet Sop.[1][2] The story is about a Trinidadian man reunited with his father, through chocolate.[3]

Ingrid Persaud

In 2020, Persaud's novel Love After Love, was published by Faber in the UK and One World, Random House in the USA. She has written for the magazines Granta, Prospect and Pree.[4]

Career

Persaud began writing in her 40s, after having taught law at King's College, London and worked as a visual artist and project manager.[5][6]

Education

Persaud read law at the London School of Economics,[7] and studied fine art at Goldsmith College and Central St. Martins.[8]

References
  1. Flood, Alison (2018-10-02). "Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  2. "Persaud wins the Commonwealth Writers' Short Story Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  3. @NatGeoUK (2020-02-27). "Notes from an author: Ingrid Persaud on Trinidad". National Geographic. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  4. "BBC winner Persaud's debut goes to Faber in 7-way auction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  5. "BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud wins the 2018 Award". BBC. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  6. Flood, Alison (2018-10-02). "Ingrid Persaud wins BBC national short story award for debut tale". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  7. "persaud-ingrid". RCW Literary Agency. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  8. "BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud wins the 2018 Award". BBC. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
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